In order to try and gain an advantage on the battlefield, Italy set out to develop a Tank of its own, resulting in the Fiat 2000, an innovative, if forgotten part of the Great War. Georgia ...

The first experimental tank was finished in December 1915 and three months later the HQ of what known as the Heavy Section Machine Gun Corps was set up at Bisley in Surrey with Col Swinton.

The tank was designed to withstand machine-gun fire and break through trench defences. Horace Leslie Birks was put in charge of one of these early tanks at Passchendaele. HORACE LESLIE BIRKS ...

The first experimental tank was finished in December 1915 and three months later the HQ of what known as the Heavy Section Machine Gun Corps was set up at Bisley in Surrey with Col Swinton.