Witness History: Witness Archive 2016 - The First Tanks

Tanks were first used in warfare on 15 September 1916 by British soldiers fighting against German troops during the Battle of the Somme in World War One. Alex Last presents interviews with some of those soldiers from the BBC archive.

A British tank in France during World War I. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Published on Thursday, 15th September 2016.

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