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G Company MGC (H) - 7th Battalion, Tank Corps    G Company, MGC Heavy Branch was formed in November 1916 and first saw action on the Western Front in 1917. They were renamed 7th Battalion, Tank Corps in April 1918. 24th May 1917 En Route to France 25th May 1917 Arrived at Le Havre 25th June 1917 The C.O. left for Poperinghe 26th May 1917 Rest most of the day. 27th May 1917 Kit inspections 28th May 1917 Arrived in Wairans 30th May 1917 Settling down in the billets 31st May 1917 Cleaning up the billets. 1st June 1917 Tanks need attention. 2nd June 1917 Col. Baker-Carr D.S.O. inspected 3rd June 1917 Church Parades 4th June 1917 Training carried out 5th June 1917 Brig. Gen. H.J. Elles D.S.O. inspected 6th June 1917 Training carried out 7th June 1917 Tank Driving at Wailly. 8th June 1917 Advance Party for Wailly. 9th June 1917 Pitching camp at Wailly. 10th June 1917 Church Parades 11th June 1917 Training carried out 12th June 1917 Continued training. 13th June 1917 Training 15th June 1917 To & from Wailley 16th June 1917 Merlimont Gunnery School. 17th June 1917 12 Officers and 60 men of 19 Coy. proceeded to Wailly 18th June 1917 Orders received 19th June 1917 Tanks to Pierremont. 20th June 1917 Training carried out 22nd June 1917 No.19 Coy. Tanks to No.20 Coy. 23rd June 1917 Returned from Gunnery School 24th June 1917 Advance Party left for Poperinghe 26th June 1917 Training carried out 27th June 1917 The C.O. returned from Poperinghe. 28th June 1917 No.20 Coy. from Wailly. 29th June 1917 9 Tanks from Central Workshop 30th June 1917 Training carried out 1st July 1917 Training carried out 2nd July 1917 Operation Orders 3rd July 1917 Men to Oosthoek Woods 4th July 1917 Engaged in entraining. 5th July 1917 left for Oosthoek Woods 6th July 1917 Preparing to move to Erin 7th July 1917 Tanks left for Central Workshops 8th July 1917 Arrived at Oesthoek Wood Camp 9th July 1917 Tanks shelled this morning 10th July 1917 Tank tracks carefully obliterated 11th July 1917 Tanks at Oesthoek Wood Camp 12th July 1917 Working on the Tanks in Oosthoek Wood 13th July 1917 Work on tracks. 14th July 1917 19th Coy. to the Tankdrome 15th July 1917 Difficulty with Sponsons. 16th July 1917 Brigade Commander's address 16th July 1917 Amendment to Preliminary Instructions No.1   16th July 1917 Amendments   16th July 1917 Attack   17th July 1917 Preliminary Instructions No.1 18th July 1917 South of Fantasia   19th July 1917 Preliminary Instructions No.2 19th July 1917 Preliminary Instructions.   19th July 1917 Operational Order No.1.   20th July 1917 Attack rehearsal 20th July 1917 Locations of Units   20th July 1917 Pigeons   20th July 1917 Movement Order No.2. 20th July 1917 Train Timetable 21st July 1917 Three more Tanks arrived 22nd July 1917 Engaged in fitting new unditching Gear 23rd July 1917 Operation Order No.1 was issued. 24th July 1917 Moved off from Oosthoek Wood 25th July 1917 "Z" day postponed 25th July 1917 Starting points of the Tanks   25th July 1917 Instructions for Limbered Wagons   26th July 1917 Dump at Frascati incomplete 27th July 1917 Rumours received 28th July 1917 Tanks to Frascati. 29th July 1917 2nd/Lt. Cross got ditched 30th July 1917 Tanks at Frascati 31st July 1917 The 18th Corps. attacked 1st August 1917 Operations with 5th Army   1st August 1917 Operations with 5th Army   1st August 1917 Operations with 5th Army   1st August 1917 Broken down Tanks 2nd August 1917 Salvage 3rd August 1917 Tank hit. 4th August 1917 Guards to withdraw 5th August 1917  G.49 hit 6th August 1917 G.50 & G.51 shelled. 7th August 1917 All moveable Tanks to Brielel 8th August 1917 1st Brigade Order No.11 9th August 1917 ZERO day altereed from 13th inst to 14th inst. 10th August 1917 Order No.4.   11th August 1917 ZERO day has been postponed 12th August 1917 ZERO day again postponed 13th August 1917 Ammendment to Order No.4.   14th August 1917 Tanks from Fantasia Farm to Canal Bank 15th August 1917 Lying Up Positions at Oblong Farm and Juliet Farm. 16th August 1917 18th Corps. Attacked with the 48th Division 17th August 1917 Orders were received by Bn.H.Q. 17th August 1917 Reports of Crew Commanders.   17th August 1917 lst Brigade Tank Corps. Order No.15.   17th August 1917 48th Division Order No.12.   18th August 1917 Tanks had a good run from Bellevue 18th August 1917 llth Division Order No.101. 18th August 1917 Tank Corps. Order No.5.   18th August 1918 Operational Order No.1    19th August 1917  19th August 1917 Report on Operations 19/8/17.   19th August 1917 Amendment to Operational Order No.1. 19th August 1918 Instructions No.2   20th August 1917 Crews have returned 20th August 1918 7th Tank Battalion. Instructions No.1    21st August 1917 Replace Tanks 22nd August 1917 Bringing Tanks back 23rd August 1917 Tankodromes 24th August 1917 General Sir Hubert Gough K.C.B. inspected 25th August 1917 Cleaning up 26th August 1917 Tank G.51 1st September 1917 One Coy. of "G" Battalion to Wailley 2nd September 1917 1st Brigade Order No.16 2nd September 1917 lst Brigade Tank corps. Order No.16. 3rd September 1917 Moved back from Ghent Cottages 3rd September 1917 Order No.6 4th September 1917 Established in Oosthoek Wood 5th September 1917 Advance Party left for Wailly 7th September 1917 Entrained with 12 Tanks 8th September 1917 Left for Beaumetz 11th September 1917 C.O. visited 19th Coy. 13th September 1917 News of 13 more Tanks 15th September 1917 Lt. Peirce reported from Central Workshops 17th September 1917 Infantry and Tank Attack. 18th September 1917 Old Tank moved up 20th September 1917 5th Army again Attacked 21st September 1917 Tests at Oosthoek Wood of 'Felt Bullet Splashes' 22nd September 1917 Tanks from Wailly 25th September 1917 Attachment to 7th Tank Regt. 26th September 1917 5th Corps Attacked. 27th September 1917 Report on Operations.   28th September 1917 Wanted for operations about the 12th October. 29th September 1917 Unditching Clips were experimented with 1st October 1917 Be ready for Action. 2nd October 1917 The Brigade Commander held a conference 3rd October 1917 Seven Female Tanks arrived 4th October 1917 Preliminary Instructions No.1 5th October 1917 Moved to Canal Bank area 6th October 1917 C.O. 7th Tank Regt. went round to H.Q. 18th Division 7th October 1917 Received the Unditching Gear. 8th October 1917 O.O.No.20 received 9th October 1917 No more movement of Tanks 10th October 1917 Removal of derilict Tanks 12th October 1917 Orders from Brigade 13th October 1917 All operations seem to be cancelled 20th October 1917 Two Officers join Salvage 21st October 1917 Blew up a derilict Tank 24th October 1917 Moved back to Oosthoek Wood. 25th October 1917 Orders for Battalion H.Q. to move tomorrow 26th October 1917 Move to Back Area cancelled. 27th October 1917 Left for Wailly 28th October 1917 Left Oosthoek for Wailly. 29th October 1917 Camped at Wailly. 30th October 1917 Fixing up camps. 31st October 1917 Conference at Brigade H.Q. 1st Nov 1917 Recce 1st November 1917 Battalion R.O. visits scene of future 7th Tank Regt. operations 3rd Nov 1917 Recce 3rd November 1917 7th Tank Regt. practiced with the Infantry. 4th Nov 1917 Training 4th November 1917 Practice with Fascines South of Mercatel. 5th Nov 1917 Training 5th Nov 1917 Training 5th November 1917 Timetable of moves to forward area received. 6th November 1917 19th & 21st Companies practiced with two Battalions of 187th Infantry Brigade. 7th Nov 1917 Training 7th November 1917 Another practice 8th Nov 1917 Training 8th November 1917 Practice with 186th Infantry Brigade. 9th Nov 1917 Training 9th November 1917 Another practice with 185th Infantry Brigade 10th November 1917 Busy getting Tanks ready 11th Nov 1917 Training 11th November 1917 Companies practiced Fascine dropping 12th November 1917 Adjutant visited Brigade Tankodrome 13th November 1917 Tanks of all Companies leave Wailly Stone Sidings for Plateau. 14th November 1917 Bn.H.Q. moves from Arras to Meaulte. 15th November 1917 Companies 7th Tank Regt. leave Plateau 16th November 1917 B.G.C. inspects Sledge Pullers 17th November 1917 Sledge Pulling 18th November 1917 Tanks arrive at Havrincourt Wood. 19th November 1917 \m 20th November 1917 Report 3rd Corps and 4th Corps. attack. 21st November 1917 Further Attack on Bourlon 22nd November 1917 Orders for further attack 23rd November 1917 Further attack with 12 "G" Battalion Tanks 24th November 1917 All quiet. 25th November 1917 All Tanks and crews to move back to Havrincourt Wood. 26th November 1917 Nearly all Tanks now back at the wood. 27th November 1917 All quiet. 28th November 1917 Soon moving back to Meaulte Camp 29th November 1917 C.O. addressses the Battalion on parade. 30th November 1917 Enemy Attack in Gonnelieu Sector 1st December 1917 Situated at Metz 2nd December 1917 Orders were issued to 7th Tank Regt. 3rd December 1917 Be ready to move to Villers Plouich 4th December 1917 Orders received   5th December 1917 Nothing to record 6th December 1917 Major Fernie ordered to take over from Col. Hankey 7th December 1917 Move to back area. 8th December 1917 Entrain at Sorel. 9th December 1917 12 Tanks move to Plateau. 10th December 1917 12 Tanks move to Plateau. 11th December 1917 Handed over 36 Tanks to Col. Burnett. 12th December 1917 Move to Meaulte. 13th December 1917 Move to Meaulte. 14th December 1917 Reported Tanks at Meaulte. 1st January 1918 Repairing Tanks 8th January 1918 Tanks join 4th Brigade. 9th January 1918 7th Tank Regt. reports 10th January 1918 General routine 17th January 1918 1st Brigade School formed 18th January 1918 Tanks repaired 28th January 1918 Tanks repaired and hut building. 31st January 1918 Preliminary Orders 1st February 1918 General training. 11th February 1918 Probable move to 1st Army area 12th February 1918 Getting Tanks fit. 15th February 1918 Radiator problems. 17th February 1918 Start the move with "A" Coy. 18th February 1918 H.Q. at chateau Ray Eiffel. 19th February 1918 Move of "B" & "C" Companies. 20th February 1918 Tanks parked at Tankodrome 1st March 1918 Training with 1st Canadian Division 2nd March 1918 Reconnaisance of including Hill 70 3rd March 1918 Training with 1st Canadian Division 4th March 1918 Reconnaisance 5th March 1918 Lecture to Divisional Infantry 6th March 1918 General routine 7th March 1918 Laison with 1st Canadian Division 8th March 1918 Battle practice 9th March 1918 Laison with 1st Canadian Infantry. 10th March 1918 General routine 11th March 1918 Battle practice 12th March 1918 Lectures to 20th & 21st Battalions Infantry. 13th March 1918 Battle practice 14th March 1918 Lectures to 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade. 15th March 1918 Battle practice 16th March 1918 General repairs 19th March 1918 Battle practice 20th March 1918 Battle practice 21st March 1918 Battle practice 22nd March 1918 General repairs 23rd March 1918 Lectures to 8th Canadian Infantry 25th March 1918 Reconnaisance. 26th March 1918 Taping and masking. 28th March 1918 L.G. Company mobilised. 29th March 1918 L.G. Company withdrawn. 30th March 1918 Standing by. 1st April 1918 Tank lectures. 12th April 1918 Orders were received 13th April 1918 Seven men were Killed   14th April 1918 Tanks moved   15th April 1918 anning previous line. 16th April 1918 Gunners withdrawn from the line 17th April 1918 Standing by   21st April 1918 Conference at 4th Divisional H.Q.   22nd April 1918 Changed sprockets 23rd April 1918 Reconnoitered Bethune area 24th April 1918 General reconnaisance 1st May 1918 Operation "Delta". 2nd May 1918 Reconnaisance for Operation. 6th May 1918 "A" Company can't move 7th May 1918 Orders received   8th May 1918 "B" & "C" Companies on train. 9th May 1918 Arrived at Hersin   10th May 1918 Positions taken up 11th May 1918 No further dispositions 17th May 1918 Two Tanks of "B" Company were hit 22nd May 1918 Six training Tanks drawn   23rd May 1918 Two Male Tanks drawn 30th May 1918 Ordered to move.   31st May 1918 "A" Company En Route 1st June 1918 Position of Companies   2nd June 1918 Battalion Gunnery School 5th June 1918 Field Exercises 6th June 1918 Field Exercises 7th June 1918 Field Exercises 10th June 1918 Field day 11th June 1918 Field Exercises 13th June 1918 Field Exercises 14th June 1918 Field Exercises 17th June 1918 Field day 20th June 1918 Field Exercises 24th June 1918 Taking over 4 Baggage Tanks. 25th June 1918 General routines. 1st July 1918 Training with Infantry 9th July 1918 From Equinegatte to Erin 10th July 1918 Handed in 12 Fighting Tanks 12th July 1918 Returned to Bouvigny 13th July 1918 Received a Warning Order 14th July 1918 General routine 21st July 1918 As per 7th Tank Regt. G/274. 25th July 1918 General course 1st August 1918 Battle Plan 1st August 1918 Battle Plans 1st August 1918 Battle Plan   1st August 1918 Gunnery Course. 3rd August 1918 Orders to be ready to move. 4th August 1918 Moved by road to Erin   5th August 1918 Tanks parked up 6th August 1918 Move from Merlemont. 7th August 1918 Move to Blangy 8th August 1918 Extra 6 Mk4. Tanks. 9th August 1918 Orders to be ready to move 10th August 1918 Move cancelled. 11th August 1918 General routines 15th August 1918 Moved to wood V.21.central.    16th August 1918 Battalion Movements   17th August 1918 Moved to Wood E.8.b.central.   18th August 1918 Preparing Tanks 19th August 1918 Operational Orders 21st August 1918 Tanks in Action. 22nd August 1918 Dispositions    23rd August 1918 See Appendix 26th August 1918 Crews resting 28th August 1918 Report on Operations with 4th Corps.   29th August 1918 Moved to lying up position 30th August 1918 In Action 31st August 1918 Crews resting 1st September 1918 Crews resting. 2nd September 1918 Tanks in Action. 3rd September 1918 Salving equipment 4th September 1918 Crews resting 5th September 1918 Salving equipment. 6th September 1918 Getting Tanks fit. 7th September 1918 Crews returned from coast 10th September 1918 Crews working on getting Tanks fit. 13th September 1918 Rested crews returned from the coast. 17th September 1918 Pending operations with Canadian Corps. 19th September 1918 Reconnoitered routes to forward area. 20th September 1918 Moved forward to Bihucourt 21st September 1918 C.O. attended a conference 22nd September 1918 Crews fitting special cribs to Tanks. 23rd September 1918 Liaison with Canadian Divisions 24th September 1918 H.Q. closed at Bihucourt   25th September 1918 Liaison with Infantry Brigade. 26th September 1918 The C.O. visited Tanks 27th September 1918 "Z" Day 28th September 1918 In Action. 29th September 1918 Crews resting after action 30th September 1918 Tanks in Action. 1st October 1918 Crews of "A" & "C" Coys. withdrawn   2nd October 1918 Tanks not needed for a few days. 5th October 1918 Crews resting. 6th October 1918 All Tanks were fitted with Smoke gadgets. 7th October 1918 Crews on Squad Drill 9th October 1918 Battalion formed in to two composite Fighting Sections. 10th October 1918 Moved up to a lying up post 11th October 1918 Tanks ordered to concentrate at Fontaine. 12th October 1918 Tanks trekking to Fontaine 13th October 1918 11 Officers proceed to UK for Corps expansion. 15th October 1918 Expansion Party left for U.K. 18th October 1918 Tanks trekked to Havrincourt 21st October 1918 H.Q. closed at Fontaine 22nd October 1918 Awaiting train at Havrincourt. 23rd October 1918 C.O. visited Companies 24th October 1918 Tanks arrived from Havrincourt 25th October 1918 Occupying huts and settling down. 26th October 1918 Inspection of camp by C.O. 27th October 1918 Church Parades 28th October 1918 rew 6 Mk.5 Tanks from central workshops 29th October 1918 Course for mechanical maintainance 30th October 1918 Companies on Drill 31st October 1918 Lecture by the Adjutant 1st November 1918 Companies on Tank Tactical Exercise 2nd November 1918 Maintainance course 3rd November 1918 C.O. inspected "A" Coy. 4th November 1918 Training. 5th November 1918 Visit from the Brigade Major. 6th November 1918 Maintainance and Hotchkiss course. 7th November 1918 Range and Hotchkiss Course. 8th November 1918 Company Parades 9th November 1918 Billet inspection 10th November 1918 Church Parades 11th November 1918 Gas Drill, Saluting. 12th November 1918 Lectures on Compass and Stars 13th November 1918 Maintainance and Hotchkiss Course 14th November 1918 Instruction on Guard Mounting. 15th November 1918 Maintaince Course, Gunnery, P.T. 16th November 1918 Pay Parade 17th November 1918 Programme of work 19th November 1918 Programme of Work 23rd November 1918 Programme of Work 23rd November 1918 reinforcements 24th November 1918 Programme of Work 30th November 1918 Entrain the Battalion for Winnepeg Camp 31st December 1918 Group Inspection 1st December 1918 Moved from Blingy Camp 2nd December 1918 Companies working on camp. 3rd December 1918 Fatigues in camp. 4th December 1918 Gunnery and mechanical maintainance courses 5th December 1918 Bath's 6th December 1918 Maintainance, driving, Gunnery 7th December 1918 Courses and fatigues 9th December 1918 Visit 10th December 1918 68 reinforcements 11th December 1918 A small fire broke out in the living hut 12th December 1918 C.O. visited No.1 Tank Group 13th December 1918 Firing on the Range 14th December 1918 Court of Inquiry assembled 15th December 1918 Church Parades 16th December 1918 Crew Training and Fatigues. 17th December 1918 Leave granted. 18th December 1918 Inspection of Mobilisation Stores 19th December 1918 Camp fatigues. 20th December 1918 Maintainance and Gunnery course. 21st December 1918 Guard Room built at entrance to camp. 22nd December 1918 C.O's. Inspection. 23rd December 1918 Recreational Training. 24th December 1918 Holiday breakfast at 0800 hours 25th December 1918 Holiday. 26th December 1918 Holiday. 27th December 1918 Resuming work. 28th December 1918 Schedule "A" training for Crews. 29th December 1918 Church Parades 30th December 1918 Battalion march past 31st December 1918 Contents 31st December 1918 Chapter 2. The Salient. 31st December 1918 Chapter 3. The first Battle of Cambrai. 31st December 1918 Chapter 4. Meaulte. Interlude. 31st December 1918 Chapter 5. The Defensive. 31st December 1918 Chapter 6. The Final Battles. 31st December 1918 Chapter 7. Conclusion. The Armistice. 31st December 1918 Roll of Honour. 31st December 1918 Honours and Rewards. 1st January 1919 Holiday breakfast 0800 hours. 3rd January 1919 Educational Courses started. 4th January 1919 Pay Parade. 5th January 1919 Church Parades 6th January 1919 Crew Training 10th January 1919 Short Route Marches. 11th January 1919 Companies Inspections 12th January 1919 Church Parades 13th January 1919 Crew Training 15th January 1919 Games 16th January 1919 Companies Inspections 18th January 1919 16 O.R's Demobilised. 19th January 1919 Demob & Leave 20th January 1919 Tanks inspected by Inspectors. 21st January 1919 Lecture by Capt. G. Ritchie 22nd January 1919 Refresher Gunnery course 23rd January 1919 Conference of Company Commanders 24th January 1919 Chaplain lecture. 25th January 1919 Pay Parade. 26th January 1919 33 O.R's Demobilised. 27th January 1919 Skeleton Crews running Tanks 28th January 1919 Crews working on Tanks 29th January 1919 Crews working on Tanks 30th January 1919 Bathing 31st January 1919 2 Officer's and 18 O.R's Demobilised. 1st February 1919 Games in the afternoon. 2nd February 1919 2 Officer's and 14 O.R's Demobilised. 3rd February 1919 Camp and Tankodrome inspected 4th February 1919 C.O. left for Transport for Dental treatment. 5th February 1919  Weather bad. 6th February 1919 No.2 group inspectors arrived 7th February 1919 Crews at work jacking up Tanks for inspection. 8th February 1919 Company messes amalgamated 9th February 1919 Battalion is now formed in to one composite Company 10th February 1919 No work possible, water supply freezing. 11th February 1919 Capt. Abbot assuming Command. 12th February 1919 Cleaning away Snow and repairing Duck Boards. 13th February 1919 8 O.R's Demobilised. 14th February 1919 Thaw started. 15th February 1919 Men preparing Tanks for inspection. 16th February 1919 Church Parades 17th February 1919 3 O.R's Demobilised. 18th February 1919 Visited by O.C. No.2. Group Inspectorate. 20th February 1919 Demob 22nd February 1919 Games in the afternoon followed by Pay Parade. 23rd February 1919 C.O's inspection of camp. 24th February 1919 Visited by G.O.C. 1st Brigade. 25th February 1919 Exhibition of Tanks to C.O. 287th Artillery. 26th February 1919 Inspection by No.2 Group inspectorate. 27th February 1919 6 O.R's Demobilised. 28th February 1919 Driver refresher course. 1st March 1919 Camp fatigues. 2nd March 1919 C.O. inspected the camp and Institutes. 3rd March 1919 C.O.returned from sick leave. 4th March 1919 Weather bad 5th March 1919  Visited by No.2. Group Inspectors. 7th March 1919 Games in the afternoon. 8th March 1919 2I/C & Lt. Cox left. 9th March 1919 Camp Inspections 10th March 1919 Crews working on Tanks. 13th March 1919 Preparing Tanks for hand over 14th March 1919 Adjutant visited 12th Battalion to arrange for transfer of personnel in Tanks. 15th March 1919 Camp fatigues. 16th March 1919 Church Parades 17th March 1919 Mobilisation Stores being returned. 18th March 1919 Instruction A.1441/B., 4 Officers of 7th Tank Regt. transferred to 12th Tank Battalion. 19th March 1919 Transfer 20th March 1919 Central Stores collected Mobilisation Stores. 21st March 1919 10 Tanks transferred to 12th Battalion 22nd March 1919 All men except cadre transferred to 12th Battalion 23rd March 1919 Cleaning up camp. 29th March 1919 Entrained for Le Treport 1st April 1919 Remainder of Cadre, Personnel and Stores arrived. 2nd April 1919 Daily inspections 7th April 1919 Daily inspections and P.T. 13th April 1919 Demob 14th April 1919 Daily Inspections 18th April 1919 Good Friday 27th April 1919 One Warrant Officer sent to Wareham 1st May 1919 Daily inspections 8th May 1919 Entrained Cadre for Boulogne. 9th May 1919 Entrained at Boulogne for move to No.3 Rest Camp. 10th May 1919 Cadre embarked the boat then sailed to Dover If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about G Company MGC (H) - 7th Battalion, Tank Corps ? There are:514 items tagged G Company MGC (H) - 7th Battalion, Tank Corps available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with G Company MGC (H) - 7th Battalion, Tank Corps during the Great War 1914-1918. Holt Albert Fletcher. Pte. All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of G Company MGC (H) - 7th Battalion, Tank Corps from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2023 marks 24 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. 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If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 253415 Pte. Albert Fletcher Holt 3rd Battalion Manchester Regiment Albert Holt served initially in 3rd Battalion, Manchester Regiment as a Gunner and was already in the Army when war broke out. He subsequently transferred the 7th Battalion, Tank Corps serving as part of the 1st Tank Brigade. His unit was captured at Toulouse on 12th of April 1918 and he was taken to Gardelegen, one of the worst disease ridden camps. It was so bad that the Germans lived off site and left the prisoners to fend for themselves regarding sickness. His POW number there was 9700. When the war ended and the soldiers were repatriated, Albert was among those who passed through Braine le Chateau in Belgium, where they were entertained to a banquet hosted by the Countesses (the de Ursels of Hingene of Chateau le Yonhuys) and The Mayor and Inhabitants. Albert was an artist and painted a Centurion Tank on a hammered out Bully Beef can for The Countess Daisy, using her paints. In return, she gifted him those paints. The original carry case containing the spent paint tubes, is still in the possession of his descendants. Albert served as an ARP warden in the Second World War and he was also a Fire Watcher at The Bolton Methodist Mission. He worked as a painter and decorator and spent time in Liverpool camouflaging the ships. Albert died in his 86th year in 1971. Elaine Fletcher Cowen Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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