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LIFE IN A TANK
LIFE IN A TANK
By
RICHARD HAIGH, M.C.
CAPTAIN IN THE TANK CORPS
With Illustrations
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY RICHARD HAIGH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published June 1918
Contents
| I. | The Meaning of the Tank Corps | 1 |
| II. | First Days of Training | 11 |
| III. | Later Days of Training | 37 |
| IV. | Moving up the Line | 49 |
| V. | Preparations for the Show | 61 |
| VI. | The First Battle | 76 |
| VII. | The Second Battle | 90 |
| VIII. | Rest and Discipline | 120 |
| IX. | A Philosophy of War | 128 |
Illustrations
| A Tank on its Way into Action | Frontispiece |
| British Official Photograph | |
| King George and Queen Mary inspecting a Tank on the British Front in France | 8 |
| British Official Photograph | |
| A British Tank and its Crew in New York | 20 |
| Photograph by Underwood & Underwood | |
| A Tank moving to the Attack down what was once a Main Street | 56 |
| British Official Photograph | |
| A Tank going over a Trench on its Way into Action | 72 |
| British Official Photograph | |
| A Tank halfway over the Top and awaiting the Order to Advance in the Battle of Menin Road | 80 |
| Photograph by Underwood & Underwood | |
| A Tank bringing in a Captured German Gun under Protection of Camouflage | 112 |
| Photograph by Underwood & Underwood | |
| A British Tank in the Liberty Loan Parade in New York | 124 |
| Photograph by Underwood & Underwood |
LIFE IN A TANK
I
THE MEANING OF THE TANK CORPSToC
TANKS!
To the uninitiated—as were we in those days when we returned to the Somme, too late to see the tanks make their first dramatic entrance—the name conjures up a picture of an iron monster, breathing fire and exhaling bullets and shells, hurling itself against the enemy, unassailable by man and impervious to the most deadly engines of war; sublime, indeed, in its expression of indomitable power and resolution.
This picture was one of the two factors which attracted us toward the Heavy Branch Machine-Gun Corps—as the Tank Corps was known in the first year of its being. On the Somme we had seen a derelict tank, wrecked,