Hotchkiss H-35?
They both look simelar, R-35 and H-35.

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"One might as well try to charge at a wall."-Napoleon, regarding the British Infantry.

Sorry, duplicate post.

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"One might as well try to charge at a wall."-Napoleon, regarding the British Infantry.

Yep, thats it. Its Joe's turn again.

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-Patrick

Yes, one of these DID sort of see service during WW2!

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"One might as well try to charge at a wall."-Napoleon, regarding the British Infantry.

Quite a few were wheeled out in one area of... a particular country during ww2.

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That country at that time was very desperate, damn, it's not time for clues just yet!

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"One might as well try to charge at a wall."-Napoleon, regarding the British Infantry.

Greece?

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Best Regards,
Jeff

Well if Portsmouth can count for being very desperate. The Bovington Mk IV male tank, for that's what it is was used for patrolling the wide open spaces of Whale island Royal Navy gunnery school during WW2.
Russia is reputed to have used a couple of Mk V 'Rikardo's' to hold back the Germans at the gates of Stalingrad in 1942, but the tank in the picture is a Mk IV.

Isn't that a "Female", having the Maxim/Vickers machine guns? The male had the 6-pounders, didn't it?

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Master Po

That is a six pounder. The Female tanks had a much smaller sponson with two machine guns.

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You're right !
I only have one book on WW 1, The World War by John J. Pershing, 1919.
They do have a pic of the "tankdrome" at Cambrai, and one stuck in a ditch.
The barrel fat-ness threw me off, but I see in my picture that it was that fat!
In the one I have there's another skinner "tube" sticking out the side (of the out-cropping/in the middle) on a "ball" joint.
What's that?
That black spot, you can see in the above (Joes) picture?

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The skinny gun in the ball joint of the Males is an Hotchkiss .303 machine gun. Air cooled so it doesn't have the cooling jacket of the Vickers. Some were fitted with Lewis guns instead. Throughout the war the machine guns were very vunerable to shell damage. Armoured shrouds were developed later in the war to protect them.

It is a Mk IV male. These participated in the following battles:

Messines 7/7/17 76 vehicles
3rd Ypres 7/31/17 216 vehicles
Langemarck-St. Julien 8/16 - 19/17 12 vehicles
3rd Gaza 11/1/17 3 vehicles
1st Cambrai 11/20/17 378 vehicles
2nd Somme 3/21/18 5 vehicles
Bucquoy raid 5/23/18 5 vehicles
Bapaume 8/21/18
2nd Arras 8/25/18
2nd Cambari 9/27/18
Selle 10/23/18

You can tell the difference between the Mk IV and V by the position of the command structure on top, and by the presence or absence of louvers on the side at the rear. Otherwise, the two are hard to tell apart.

Yes, Bodston is correct. Heavy MkIV No.2324 was presented to HMS Excellent on May 1, 1919. Twenty years later It was restored to full serviceability and patrolled Portsmouth during air raids, but It damaged a private car and had to be confined to the barracks!
Note-That picture is not of Heavy number 2324.

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"One might as well try to charge at a wall."-Napoleon, regarding the British Infantry.

Several other WW1 vintage vehicles were wheeled out around Bovington for Home guard/LDV activities, I don't believe any of the full-tracked tanks ran but one or two were placed at road-blocks after Dunkirk.

(I should like to point out that I am not responsible for Bodston's presence on this thread, he found it all by himself... I believe he can hear the sound of vehicles being identified across several continents...)

Cheers,
Adam

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My favorite story of a WW1 veteran seeing service during WW2 is the 1919 vintage Mk V that was used to test the prototype Bailey bridge. They obviously weren't confident enough in the structure to risk a current model. The Mk V was trundled to the centre of the span, a further two unspecifed smaller tanks were driven on top using ramps. The Mk V was then crammed full of steel and pig iron. The bridge held.

Anyway what's this?

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No, I'm afraid not.

Italian M15/42

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American by birth, TEXAN by the grace of GOD!

I'm going with M11/39.

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"One might as well try to charge at a wall."-Napoleon, regarding the British Infantry.

Nope..

Are you saying nope to PzJgr, mine, or both?

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"One might as well try to charge at a wall."-Napoleon, regarding the British Infantry.

Correct Joe.. probably the worst medium tank of the war. Your turn again.