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• On the Driving Ground

  (art) Made by: Morley, Harry (ARA) 1941

  image: a Matilda tank enters the image on the right, driving up an almost vertical slope. Other tanks, further ahead on the track are shown in the background.

• An 'Ark' (Bridging Tank) Moving into Position at Dawn

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1944

  image: British armoured vehicles moving in orchard country on a misty early morning. In the middle ground to the left are two tanks, with a Bren Gun Carrier slightly before and to the right of them, all ready to move off. In the centre foreground an...

• Tank Recovery during the Retreat to the Coast, France : June 1940

  (art) Made by: Seddon, Richard Harding 1940-06-01

  image: a damaged light tank is hauled onto a wheeled truck with ropes by British soldiers. The tank's tracks have been damaged and a section of one of them lies on the road in the right foreground. A large military truck is waiting for the wheeled truck...

• Our Mechanised Army : Tanks in action. Ministry of Information poster

  (art) Made by: Cundall, Charles Ernest 1940

  image: a group of A9 Cruiser and Mk VI Light tanks negotiates a bleak landscape, firing ahead.

• The Industrial Battle : tanks ready for shipment overseas

  (art) Made by: Richards, Albert 1943

  image: A view from a high position across a field full of military vehicles. In the foreground three men stand beside a Crusader tank, with another man standing at the end of a long line of Bren Gun Carriers. There is an assortment of other vehicles...

• Breaking Through the Last of the German Minefields at El Alamein : 4th November 1942

  (art) Made by: Ingram, Alex J 1942-11-04

  image: In the foreground a damaged ambulance lies half-submerged in the sand, the back door detached. Two tanks, the foremost of which is clearly a Sherman, drive away from the viewer, creating a trail of sand and dust. Overhead the sky is filled with...

• Evreux 1944

  (art) Made by: Mann, Cathleen (Marchioness of Queensberry) 1944

  image: A rural landscape with the Iton river flowing under a bridge in the town of Évreux. In the middle ground are two armoured cars and a group of soldiers in a field. Behind them a convoy of military vehicles passes along a tree-lined road, with a...

• Exercise Kruschen (Dunwich Common): Tank Fascines; the 'Snake' Ronson flame-throwers

  (art) Made by: Bawden, Edward

  image: a large landscape scene of military exercises on Dunwich Common. On the far left soldiers are seen constructing tank fascines and defences. Churchill tanks are in the centre of the composition with four tanks in the middle distance, one of which...

• The Crossing of the Rhine, 1945

  (art) Made by: Taylor, Eric Wilfred 1945

  image: a row of thin trees run from the foreground down the side of the hill. To the right are several tanks and numbers of troops moving down towards the river bank and embarking onto landing craft.

• 'Scorpion' (Mine-destroying) Tanks in France, 1944

  (art) Made by: Russell, C A 1944

  image: In the foreground an adapted Sherman tank moves down over a hillside, between thin, branchless trees. There is another tank at the foot of the hill below, and a cloud of smoke rising from the hillside in the background.