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What a great re-enactment, an interesting day out for you and you got some great pictures. We fortunately didn't get invaded by the Germans but they tried very hard to break us with their constant bombing of the major cities.

I have an interesting fact. My great uncle Alex was killed in WW1 aged 19. The day of the battle of Flers-Coucelette, France, on 15th September 1916 was the day he died. Alongside the troops was the first ever tanks used in battle. I went to the national archive to read the war diaries and found something an officer had written...
"A new engine of war, a petrol- driven armoured car, termed “the tank” was used for the first time. Four of these machines were allotted to the division during these operations and are considered to have done splendid work".

I think the soldiers, including my great uncle, must have been comforted by having the support of the tanks although in reality many broke down but the Mark 2 ones were better.