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• Category: Tank 100
  • Morty’s Daredevil – The First Tank Action
  • Tanks at Flers
  • Animal Mascots: Man’s Best Friend
  • Battle of Amiens: 8 – 11 August 1918
  • Eric Robinson, Last WWI Tank Casualty
  • Trapped: The Story of Fray Bentos
  • The First Tank Trials at Hatfield
  • Camouflage & Paint in WWI
  • Building the Mark IV
  • The Battle of Amiens: Part 2 – The Attack
  • The Battle of Amiens: Part 1 – The Plan
  • The Mark V*
  • Mark V
  • The Renault FT – Development and Combat Debut
  • Action Debut of the Whippet Tank
  • Action Debut of The A7V
  • Savage Rabbits
  • The Situation in 1918
  • Tank Numbers
  • The Legacy of Cambrai
  • The Battle of Cambrai: The German Counterattack
  • The Battle of Cambrai: Graincourt
  • Richard Wain at Cambrai
  • The Battle of Cambrai: Flesquières Ridge
  • The Battle of Cambrai: The Fascine
  • Tank Corps War Diaries: 17 – 19 November 1917
  • Tank Corps War Diaries: 13 – 16 November 1917
  • Tank Corps War Diaries: 7 – 12 November 1917
  • Tank Corps War Diaries: 1 – 6 November 1917
  • Tank Armament in The First World War
  • Victoria Cross: Cecil Sewell
  • The Cockcroft
  • The Battle of Passchendaele – Into Battle
  • Cap Badge Submissions
  • The Battle of Passchendaele – Operation Hush
  • The Battle of Passchendaele – Tanks at Third Ypres
  • The Formation of The Tank Corps
  • The Battle of Passchendaele – Background & Planning
  • Tanks On Trains In The First World War
  • German Responses to the Tank
  • The New Mark IV
  • Experimental WWI Tanks – Part III
  • French First World War Tanks
  • Experimental WWI Tanks – Part II
  • Experimental WWI Tanks – Part I
  • The Battle of Arras
  • The Heroics of Elliott Hotblack
  • Tank Men: Walter Ratcliffe
  • Tanks in Palestine in the First World War
  • Mark I and Mark II Tanks in Gaza
  • Tank Men: Albert Baker
  • Christmas Cards
  • Sydney Hadley’s Glass Eye
  • The Gunnery School
  • A. A. Milne Poem
  • Camouflage
  • Sponsons
  • The Bombproof Roof
  • The Tail Assembly
  • Tank Banks and Souvenirs
  • The Henriques Ring
  • Tank Men: The Story of the First Tank Crews
  • Little Willie
• Category: Tiger Blog
  • Tiger Engine Stripped
  • The Sturmtiger’s Firepower
  • Tiger 131 – A Twist in the Tale
  • The Myth of Tiger 131 – An Update
  • Capture of Tiger 131
  • Tiger Combat Debut
  • Building the Tiger Tank
  • Zimmerit and why
  • Tiger 131 Restoration: Part IX Restoration at The Tank Museum
  • Tiger 131 Restoration: Part VIII The Final Stages?
  • Tiger 131 Restoration: Part VII Battle Damage
  • The Mysterious American Tiger
  • When did British Intelligence learn about The Tiger?
  • Why Tiger 131?
  • Tiger 131 Restoration: Part VI Oddities
  • The Panzerkompanie
  • What the L
  • Tiger 131 Restoration: Part V A Setback and a Repaint
  • Tiger 131 Restoration: Part IV The Hull
  • Tiger Wheels
  • Tiger 131 Restoration: Part III The Turret
  • The Driver’s Hatch of Tiger 131
  • Tiger 131 Restoration: Part II Hull and Suspension
  • T1E1 Heavy Tank
  • The Mystery of the Tiger Recovery Vehicle
  • North Africa Veteran Reg Hunt Remembers
  • Villers-Bocage Veteran Charlie Burgess
  • Tiger 131 Restoration: Part I Disassembly
  • Prokhorovka and the Myth of the Largest Tank Battle
  • Soviet Tanks at Kursk
  • German Tanks at Kursk
  • Background to the Battle of Kursk
  • The Tiger Family Part 2 – The Tiger II
  • The Tiger Family Part I – To the Tiger I
  • Two Widths of Track
  • Gas Turbine Jagdtiger
  • Panzer III
  • The Tigers Repainted
  • Capturing the Henschel
  • Porsche and Henschel Turrets?
  • Capturing The Jagdtiger
  • First Tiger I Knocked Out by the British
  • Knocking Out A King Tiger
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Comet
  • Tiger 131 Stars in Fury
• Category: News
  • Black Friday Sales Success!
  • Children’s Letters to Veterans Spread Christmas Cheer
  • Christmas Gift Guide 2024
  • Fundraising Campaign to Restore M47 Tank Reaches Halfway Mark
  • Why We Hit Pause on YouTube (and Here’s What’s Coming Next!)
  • Get in the Festive Spirit with Our Christmas Market!
  • Looking for the Perfect Christmas Gift?
  • Half Term Family Fun in Full Swing at The Tank Museum!
  • Battlegroup Afghanistan: Last Chance to See!
  • David Willey retires after 25 years
  • Tiger 131 Back in Action
  • October Half Term: ‘Tanks on Film’
  • Exclusive “Fury” Cobi 1/35 Scale Sherman
  • September 2024 on YouTube
  • One Week Until ‘On Track’ Wellbeing Event
  • Creative Competition at The Tank Museum Inspires Young Designers
  • Remote Control Tank up for Auction to Help Restore Full-Sized Sister M47
  • South West’s Biggest Model Show Returns
  • August 2024 on YouTube
  • TANKFEST Hall & Woodhouse Donation
  • Win a Ride in Tiger 131
  • Tiger Day Autumn Star Vehicles 2024
  • July 2024 on YouTube
  • TANKFEST 2024 Sell-Out
  • M47 will be back
  • William Carnie Donation
  • June on YouTube
  • Get Inside a Warrior IFV
  • Museum wins prestigious industry award
  • IS-3M returns to TANKFEST
  • May on YouTube
  • Ajax in public running debut at TANKFEST
  • Tiger Day Spring Sell-Out Success
  • Ukraine Exhibition to launch in 2025
  • Discover the tanks of D-Day
  • Top Marks for Museum
  • A Bridge Too Far
  • Museum Launches Universal Credit Tickets
  • Museum bags honours
  • Tank Inventor Medal Discovery
  • Cobi Tiger 131 receives upgrade
  • Medalling Kids
  • Tank Tracks to Ukraine
  • Tank fans take the leap!
  • 2024 BSL tour dates released
  • TANKFEST Speakers 2024
  • M60 Engine donation
  • Centurion AVRE joins TANKFEST Guest line up
  • Tiger Day Spring Star Vehicles 2024
  • Valentine IX Cobi brick model launched.
  • Dorset Tourism Award Winners
  • TANKFEST 2024 Guest Vehicles
  • TANKFEST 2024 Star Vehicles
  • Museum Launches Cambrai Picture Mission
  • Experience Tiger Day
  • TANKFEST 2024 Guest Announcement
  • 100 Objects Book Competition
  • Museum’s Venue Hire Success
  • South West Model Show Returns
  • Celebrating Women in Warfare
  • Record-Breaking Year for visitors
  • The Life and Times of Albert Baker
  • January on YouTube
  • Model Competition Launched
  • December on YouTube
  • Record-breaking Black Friday Sales
  • £20k in 24hrs as Museum Supporters Rally
  • Photograph Appeal
  • FV4005 – The Road to TANKFEST
  • One Week to go until a Dorset Christmas
  • We Remember
  • The Harris Letters
  • Tank Museum Releases Christmas Advert
  • November on YouTube
  • Exclusive Meet & Greet With Sabaton Bass Player
  • Tank Pull for Departing Director
  • Tanks and Graffiti
  • A Dorset Christmas
  • History Rocks Film Premiere
  • New Christmas Knits Launched
  • October Half Term Art-A-Tank
  • October on YouTube
  • 100 Years of the Royal Tank Regiment
  • One Week to go until On Track Event
  • British Sign Language Tour Returns to the Museum
  • Harbour School Model Display
  • Tiger Day Autumn was a sell out event!
  • Re-published Tanks At Flers Book
  • One Week to go until Tiger Day
  • Final Fury Film Fan Event
  • On Track Guest Speakers Announced
  • September on YouTube
  • Carl Gustaf Anti-Tank Weapon
  • The Life and Times of Albert Baker
  • Documents Reveal Tank Inventor’s Frustration
  • Experience the Tiger 131 in action
  • Tiger Day Autumn Star Vehicles
  • August on YouTube
  • Model Show Returns to The Tank Museum
  • Hall & Woodhouse Donation
  • New Airfix Ferret Scout Car Mk 2
  • World of Tanks Donation
  • Tonnes of Family Fun this Summer Holidays
  • New Accessibility Improvements
  • July on YouTube
  • Celebrating six years of Patreon support
  • Best Job In The World
  • TANKFEST 2023 Biggest Yet!
  • Hall & Woodhouse supports TANKFEST 2023
  • One week to go until TANKFEST 2023
  • Cobi to thrill brick enthusiasts
  • Brickmania in TANKFEST debut.
  • Museum welcomes HRH The Duke of Kent
  • June on YouTube
  • New British Sign Language Tours
  • Top 10 Father’s Day Gifts
  • Make tracks with Second World War tank inspired trainers
  • History Hit at TANKFEST 2023
  • Tank Zoo Returns for May Half-Term
  • On Track Wellbeing Event 2023
  • WW2 Warbird Flypast at TANKFEST 2023
  • May on YouTube
  • TANKFEST Speakers 2023
  • Famous Battle Re-enacted at Tiger Day
  • Biggest Ever Brick Tank Model Released
  • Tracks and Wheels
  • Dig Deeper into History with a Group Tour
  • New WWII ‘Briefing Room’ Available to Hire
  • King Tiger Arrives in Finland
  • The Tank Museum First to 100 Million Views
  • A Maus Tale
  • April on YouTube
  • The enduring appeal of Tiger 131
  • Tanks for your memories
  • Dystopian ‘Tank Girl’ Opens New Exhibition
  • Centaur III to run at TANKFEST 2023
  • Appeal for tank handbag
  • Replica Panzer I makes UK debut
  • Popular David Fletcher Title Republished
  • TANKFEST 2023 Star Vehicles
  • TANKFEST 2023 Guest Vehicles
  • Quiet Mornings at the Tank Museum
  • Lookalike Competition Winners
  • March on YouTube
  • Major Harold ‘Harry’ Kemp-Robinson M.C.
  • 100th Birthday Cake Competition
  • New Exhibition: Tanks for the Memories
  • Meet 2022 Bake Off Winner at The Tank Museum
  • February on YouTube
  • Tank TV at TANKFEST 2023
  • TANKFEST: In the Arena
  • Bake Off winner making tracks for Dorset
  • Discover Scale Modelling at The Tank Museum
  • 100 Birthday Themed February Half Term
  • January on YouTube
  • The Tank Museum in 100 Objects Book Launch
  • Prisoner of War: WW2 Archive Donation
  • A Booming Black Friday
  • £100,000 grant for Supporting Collection
  • December on YouTube
  • Signed by Hitler and Rommel?
  • Twelve Days of Christmas
  • Joy Bells for Cambrai
  • The Desert Rat
  • November on YouTube
  • A Tank Museum Christmas
  • On His Majesty’s Service
  • Made on the Western Front
  • Tank Paintings Released by Tank Veteran
  • October on YouTube
  • Working on Fury
  • Veteran Stories
  • Wall of Condolence
  • The Tank Museum & National Mourning
  • HM Queen Elizabeth II
  • TANKFEST 2023 Announcement
  • September on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • Getting Tiger Ready for Tiger Day
  • Top 10 Summer Picks
  • See world’s only running Tiger I tank
  • August on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • Gravity Knife: A Wartime Souvenir
  • Rolls Royce Brick Model Released
  • Dr. Ken Tout OBE: Obituary
  • Alf Longstaff Military Medal
  • July on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • Successful TANKFEST raises funds for Museum
  • The Chieftain Matrix
  • Tank Tok
  • June on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • Ukraine & T-72: The death of the tank?
  • Tigerfibel Pre-order
  • Royal Armoured Corps: Roll of Honour
  • Militaria Auction – Jolly Roger for sale
  • That’s Amoure in Armour
  • May on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • Successful Kids’ Book Launch
  • Tiger 131 Capture Donation
  • How many tanks is too many?
  • Sherman Fury Painting Launched
  • Ernest Slarks
  • April on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • Last of the Hulks
  • March on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • ‘Lost’ tank blueprint saved for nation
  • TANKFEST 2022 – Almost Normal
  • Biggest Ever South West Model Show
  • Build your own Mark V tank
  • What is a Sweetheart Brooch?
  • Celebrating The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
  • February on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • King Tiger Loan to Sweden
  • How to Build a Full-Size Model WW1 Tank
  • The Shock of Belsen
  • Pre-order new David Fletcher books
  • Model Show is back for 2022
  • Swiss Tank Donation
  • Support The Tank Museum in 2022
  • Tank Zoo is coming to The Tank Museum
  • January on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • December on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • Government Funding Awarded to Museum
  • The Tank Museum’s Online Shop Wins
  • Kickstart Success
  • Merry Christmas from The Tank Museum
  • November on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • Monty Pennant Emerges After 80 Years
  • Churchill Items To Go Under Hammer
  • Forces Friendly Employer
  • Stay On Track with the Livestream
  • October on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • September on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • Tiger Range Boosts Online Shop
  • Exclusive Tank Museum Stamps Collectable
  • Monty ‘thoroughly enjoyed’ Fighting Rommel
  • August on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • Speaker’s Announced for On Track Mental Health Event
  • TANKFEST Tickets & Programme Release
  • Sold-Out Tiger Day at The Tank Museum
  • D-Day Veteran visits WW2: War Stories exhibition
  • Lots Sought for Militaria Auction
  • ‘On Track’ Mental Health Event Returns
  • Warrior 2 Finds a New Home at The Tank Museum
  • July on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • Exclusive Haynes Manuals Reprinted
  • Online Shop Wins Awards
  • New Editions of WWI & Interwar Titles
  • Churchill Mark III* Tank Repairs Making Headway
  • Eat, Drink and be Married at The Tank Museum
  • Limited Premium Tickets Remaining
  • June on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • Children’s Art Exhibition on Display
  • WW2: War Stories – China Doll kept a Tank Crew Safe
  • May on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • WW2: War Stories – Peter Vaux
  • Event tickets back on sale
  • Museum Reopening – Update
  • April on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • WW2: War Stories Opening Event
  • TANKFEST Speakers Confirmed
  • Tobruk Flags star in new WW2 exhibition
  • British Armour in WW2: Crowdfunder Success
  • Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
  • Museum to host Militaria Fair and Auction
  • March on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • Panther-Fibel Crowdfunding Campaign
  • 80th Anniversary of Lend-Lease
  • A Salute to Model Making
  • February on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • Museums to reopen from 17 May
  • 30th Anniversary of the Gulf War
  • Tank Museum wins Gold!
  • COVID Forces Events Reshuffle
  • TANKFEST 2021 – Adapting to COVID
  • January on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • Say ‘I Do’ at The Tank Museum
  • Face the FURY at The Tank Museum
  • Churchill Tank will Roll again thanks to £5,000 Crowdfunder
  • Which Tank is on your Christmas Wishlist?
  • December on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • The Tank Corps at Christmas
  • WW2 War Stories: Exhibition Update
  • Help Return Churchill III* to Running Order
  • Merry Christmas from The Tank Museum
  • November on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • Surprise Christmas hit for The Tank Museum
  • Iconic Rolls Royce Armoured Car turns 100 years old
  • October on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • £780,000 Lifeline Grant for The Tank Museum
  • Another Successful Tiger Day
  • September on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • August on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • Tank Driver Training on Track
  • Tiger Day goes ahead at The Tank Museum
  • The Tank Museum Reopens with a New Exhibition
  • Painting the Jagdpanther
  • TANKFEST Online Raises Vital Funds
  • July on the Museum’s YouTube Channel
  • TANKFEST 2020 Statement
  • War on Boredom
  • The Tank Museum in Lockdown
• Category: Articles
  • History of the Royal Tank Regiment
  • Operation Market Garden Day 1
  • Operation Market Garden Day 2
  • Operation Market Garden Day 3
  • Operation Market Garden Day 4
  • Operation Market Garden Day 5
  • New Matilda Guide Book Launched
  • Concept tank model donation
  • Armour in Profile
  • Prichard: Sieges, Escapes & Internment
  • Watching Paint Dry
  • Tracks and Wheels Returns
  • Universal Tank flamethrower proposal
  • Clement Arnold and the Musical Box
  • A Portrait of Major Sydney John King MC RTR
  • Mission to Recruit New Commander Accomplished!
  • Tank Corps Officer Percival Bayliss
  • Rare War Game Donation
  • WW1 Tank Camouflage Design
  • Music and the Military
  • Category: Tanks
    • Tank Crew ‘Splatter’ Mask Belonging to Battle of Cambrai Hero
    • Thank You to The National Lottery!
    • Fraser Flamethrower Donation
    • The Tritton Collection
    • The History of the M47
    • How to Invent a DD Tank
    • Tanks on D-Day
    • Replacing the Chieftain
    • The FV4005
    • Valentine: What’s in a name?
    • Using Petrol in First World War Tanks
    • The History of the Sturmtiger
  • Category: Conflicts
    • Rifleman Khan: Heroism and Devoted Duty
  • Category: Battles
    • Operation Michael
  • Category: Human stories
  • Category: Objects
  • Category: Engineering
• Category: OLD - Do not use Uncategorized
  • April on YouTube
  • March on YouTube
  • February on YouTube

Events

• Behind the Scenes 2025 Tour
• Behind the Scenes 2025 Tour
• Quiet Morning
• Quiet Morning
• Quiet Morning
• Quiet Morning
• TANKFEST 2025
• Tanks in Action Crew Day
• TANKMAS
• Tiger Day Autumn
• Wartime Winter
• May Bank Holiday - Tracks & Wheels
• Behind the Scenes 2025 Tour
• South West Model Show
• October Half Term: Women in Warfare
• Summer Holiday: Season of STEM
• May Half Term: VE Day
• Easter Holiday: Ink & Iron
• South West Model Show
• Tiger Day Spring
• February Half Term: Camouflage in Combat

Tanks

• M47
• FV4005
• Hamilcar Glider
• RAM Kangaroo
• Churchill IV
• Bison
• Sd Kfz 234/3
• Jagdpanzer 38(t)
• StuG III
• Bulldog
• Warthog
• Marder 1A3
• M3A1 Stuart
• Panzer II
• Tiger I
• Tiger II
• Little Willie
• Jagdtiger
• Whippet
• T-34/76
• Matilda II
• Panther
• Jagdpanther
• Mark IV
• Renault FT
• Mark V
• TOG II*
• T-72
• T-34/85
• Chieftain
• Mark I
• Mark II
• Panzer IV
• Centurion
• Viking
• Hornsby Tractor
• M4A2E8 Sherman 'Fury'
• M4 Sherman
• M548