Tanks were first used in combat at Flers, France, on 15th September 1916. Heavy Section and Heavy Branch Machine Gun Corps, the Tank Corps, Royal Tank Corps and Royal Tank Regiment.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Royal Tank Regiment
Commemorated ati
Royal Tank Regiment Memorial
9 foot bronze. The statues represent a crew from a WW2 Comet tank.
Other Subjects
7th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment
London unit which served in WW1. The 7th (City of London) Battalion had no traditional name, but was nicknamed the 'Shiny Seventh' because it wore brass buttons in a Regiment whose other battalion...
1 memorial
Private George Edward Lickfold
George Edward Lickfold was born on 24 October 1881 one of the six children of John Hollis Lickfold (1848-1891) and Eliza Lickfold (circa 1842-1933). His birth was registered as George Edwin Lickfol...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Captain M. F. Blaney
Royal Engineer killed defusing a bomb. Awarded the George Cross posthumously and Blaney Crescent, E6, where we understand there is/was another plaque, was named for him. Blaney had already defused ...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
E. J. Arnold
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Second Lieutenant Philip Edward Thomas
Novelist and poet. Born Philip Edward Thomas in Lambeth. He worked as a journalist and book-reviewer, and wrote a novel 'The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans'. He is referred to as a war poet, although littl...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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Lord Sandberg CBE
Trustee of The Memorial Gates Trust. Michael Graham Ruddock Sandberg was born on 31 May 1927, the youngest of the three children of Gerald Arthur Clifford Sandberg (1882-1954) and Ethel Marian Cli...
1 memorial
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