print, Tanks
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19790737-007
- Event 1914-1919 First World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Bone, Sir David Muirhead
- Date Made --
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Art
- Department Art and Memorials
- Museum CWM
- Inscription (recto): M BONE; VII (verso): THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA OTTAWA; "TANKS"
- Medium ink
- Support paper
- Materials Not applicable
- Service Component British Expeditionary Force
- Measurements Height 38.0 cm, Width 50.7 cm
- Caption Tanks
- Additional Information This British Mk. 1 tank has the steering carriage at the back and two six-pounder guns. The steering carriage at the rear was discarded on later models because of its vulnerability to shellfire. Slow moving and prone to mechanical breakdown, the tank was useful in ploughing through fields of barbed wire and in taking on German machine-gun emplacements.