Canadian Expeditionary Force (30) 1st Canadian Tank Battalion
1st Canadian Tank Battalion., CEF
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(Doug Hall Collection, Author Photo)
1st Canadian Tank Battalion. Assembled from a combined group of students, chauffeurs and NWMP Troopers. They were still training when the war ended and therefore did not take part in the fighting.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3395271)
Tanks waiting to go into action, July 1917.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3395388)
German anti-tank rifle captured during the Battle of Amiens in Canadian hands, August, 1918.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4589458)
British tanks knocked out and mired at Passchendaele, November 1917.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3395412)
Villers - Bretonneau with assortment of Tanks in the railway yard. April - May 1919.