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To my mother,

Margaret Sheldon,

a constant source of encouragement, with my love.

By the same author:

The German Army on the Somme 1914- 1916
The German Army at Passchendaele
The German Army on Vimy Ridge 1914 - 1917
The Germans at Beaumont Hamel
The Germans at Thiepval

With Nigel Cave:

The Battle for Vimy Ridge 1917
Le Cateau

First published in Great Britain in 2009 by

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Copyright Jack Sheldon 2009

ISBN 978 18 4415 94 44

eISBN 9781844685042

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1. The Kaiser, Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria and General der Kavallerie Georg von der Marwitz at Headquarters Second Army, Le Cateau.

2. General der Kavallerie Georg von der Marwitz, Commander Second Army.

3. Generalleutnant Oskar Freiherr von Watter, Commander 54th Infantry Division, complete with a trademark cigarette. He seemed to have an inexhaustible supply.

4. Defence from shell holes near Bourlon village.

5. Field Guns in the anti-tank role firing from pits.

6. A truck-mounted 77 mm anti-aircraft gun. Weapons of this type were rushed to Cambrai from all along the Western Front to be used as emergency anti-tank weapons.

7. Incoming shells, stored ammunition and petrol tanks were a lethal combination.

8. Two tanks, possibly F6 (destroyed on 27 November 1917) and G 21 Grasshopper knocked out in Bourlon Wood.

9. Tank A 13, HMLS Were All In It ditched near Marcoing.

10. The Battle for Bourlon Ridge. Tank attack with air support.

11. A tank squadron spotted from the air.

12. Bourlon Village and Chateau.

13. Fontaine Notre Dame December 1917.

14. La Justice Farm.

15. A failed attempt by F 22 Flying Fox II to cross the St Quentin Canal at Masnires.

16. Tank casualty in Fontaine Notre Dame. This is probably C 47, commanded by Lieutenant Moore, which caught fire and had to be abandoned

17. Tank C51 Chaperon II, commanded by 2Lt Annett, knocked out south of Lateau Wood.

18.Tank H48, Hypatia, commanded by 2Lt B O Hancock ditched west of Fontaine Notre Dame.

19. Tank C 53, originally abandoned with a dynamo fault near Bourlon Wood being used by German troops to recover H48 Hypatia ditched alongside the Cambrai Bapaume road near Bourlon Wood.

20. Tank F5 Fervant southwest of Bourlon. Visiting it are two officers of Fusilier Regiment 73. On the left is Hauptmann von Weyhe, the regimental adjutant; on the right is Leutnant Prmmel 4th Company (Senteur Collection).

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