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<blockquote data-quote="The Archivist" data-source="post: 219065" data-attributes="member: 16690"><p>This might interest some of you folks, though it's in pretty poor shape after having been buried for the best part of 50 years and having had the turret and tracks removed. It's a Mk. II Churchill and stands on Kithurst Hill in West Sussex.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122392[/ATTACH]</p><p>The tank</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122393[/ATTACH]</p><p>Cogwheels for tracks</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122394[/ATTACH]</p><p>Standing on top</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122395[/ATTACH]</p><p>Remaining controls</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]122396[/ATTACH]</p><p>Bullet holes</p><p></p><p>A little history adapted from <a href="http://www.findonvillage.com/0566_the_last_tank.htm" target="_blank">here</a>:</p><p></p><p>During 1942, the King's Own Calgary Regiment was practicing tactics and tank manoeuvres with Mk. II Churchills at the deserted village of Tidemills near Seaford in preparation for the intended raid on Dieppe.</p><p></p><p>During the Canadians' training, 'A' Squadron discovered they had been lumbered with a 'dead-head': a tank with a a crucial mechancal failure. Due to the anticipated arrival of new Mark III Churchills, the tank was not considered worth repairing and was decommissioned.</p><p></p><p>The Dieppe raid ended in disaster with most of the men being killed or captured by the enemy, but the "dead-head" tank was passed to the infantry units of the 2nd Canadian Army Division who transported it to the training grounds above Storrington in West Sussex where it was used as a target for PIAT anti-tank weapons.</p><p></p><p>After hostilities ended, the tank was pushed into a bomb crater and covered with earth and rubble. It remained buried until the 1990s when it was dug up by the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. The turret went to a private collector and various other parts went to the Tank Museum at Bovington but the rest remains as an unoffcial memorial to the Canadian forces in this part of the world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Archivist, post: 219065, member: 16690"] This might interest some of you folks, though it's in pretty poor shape after having been buried for the best part of 50 years and having had the turret and tracks removed. It's a Mk. II Churchill and stands on Kithurst Hill in West Sussex. [ATTACH=full]122392[/ATTACH] The tank [ATTACH=full]122393[/ATTACH] Cogwheels for tracks [ATTACH=full]122394[/ATTACH] Standing on top [ATTACH=full]122395[/ATTACH] Remaining controls [ATTACH=full]122396[/ATTACH] Bullet holes A little history adapted from [URL="www.findonvillage.com/0566_the_last_tank.htm"]here[/URL]: During 1942, the King's Own Calgary Regiment was practicing tactics and tank manoeuvres with Mk. II Churchills at the deserted village of Tidemills near Seaford in preparation for the intended raid on Dieppe. During the Canadians' training, 'A' Squadron discovered they had been lumbered with a 'dead-head': a tank with a a crucial mechancal failure. Due to the anticipated arrival of new Mark III Churchills, the tank was not considered worth repairing and was decommissioned. The Dieppe raid ended in disaster with most of the men being killed or captured by the enemy, but the "dead-head" tank was passed to the infantry units of the 2nd Canadian Army Division who transported it to the training grounds above Storrington in West Sussex where it was used as a target for PIAT anti-tank weapons. After hostilities ended, the tank was pushed into a bomb crater and covered with earth and rubble. It remained buried until the 1990s when it was dug up by the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. The turret went to a private collector and various other parts went to the Tank Museum at Bovington but the rest remains as an unoffcial memorial to the Canadian forces in this part of the world. [/QUOTE]
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