A Century of Tanks
Chris Moore, 12 May 2022
In the early summer of 1917, Wilfred Bion, a second lieutenant fresh from the training depot of the Machine Gun Corps, arrived at Wool in Dorset and set off for the army camp at Bovington. The Machine Gun Corps trained recruits in the mechanised warfare brought about by the recent invention of the tank. He saw one almost immediately, broken down in the middle of Bovington Lane. It reminded...
