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With the tanks: 1916-1918, memoirs of a British tank commander in the Great War

By Watson , Bob , William Henry Lowe;Curruthers

Book information

Publisher
Pen & Sword Military
Year
2014
ISBN
9781783463152, 9781473850149, 9781473850323, 1783463155
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
11 MB (11104363 bytes)
Pages
248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front;World War1914-1918 -- Personal narratives1914-1918 -- Tank warfare;Western Front (World War1914-1918--Campaigns--Western Front;Tank warfare;M1914-1918--Tank warfare;World War1914-1918;World WarBritish;World WarWilliam Henry Lowe;World WarWorld War

Description

William Watson was a young Oxford post-graduate at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Along with several friends from Oxford he enlisted in the army expecting the war to last six weeks. Watson began his service in the Great War as a British Army motorcycle despatch rider. He saw active service during the key battles of 1914 and "early 1915. Watson was then commissioned and became a tank commander and saw active service with the tanks most notably at Cambrai in 1917"--Jacket.

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