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H Company MGC (H) - 8th Battalion, Tank Corps   1st Nov 1917 On the Move   2nd Nov 1917 On the Move   5th Nov 1917 Training 7th Nov 1917 Training   8th Nov 1917 Training   10th Nov 1917 On the March 12th Nov 1917 Demonstration 20th Nov 1917 Ditched   A Mark IV (Male) tank of H Battalion ditched in a German trench while supporting the 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, one mile west of Ribecourt. Some men of the battalion are resting in the trench © IWM (Q 6433) 21st of March 1918 Intense Barrage    23rd Mar 1918 Fighting Withdrawal   24th Mar 1918 In Defence   If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about H Company MGC (H) - 8th Battalion, Tank Corps ? There are:11 items tagged H Company MGC (H) - 8th 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 H Company MGC (H) - 8th Battalion, Tank Corps during the Great War 1914-1918. Cleaver Sidney James. Gnr. Kirkham MM Joseph. Pte. Williams MM. Garfield. L/Cpl 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 H Company MGC (H) - 8th Battalion, Tank Corps from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the Great War? Our Library contains many many diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. 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If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 264989 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. 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.   L/Cpl Garfield Williams MM. H Company Machine Gun Corps (Heavy) My Grandfather, Garfield Williams won the Military Medal for actions on 3rd of October 1918, against the Beayrevoir Line wile serving with 8th Battalion, Tank Corps. Paul Williams Add to this record.   Gnr. Sidney James Cleaver 8th Btn. 11 Section. Tank Corps We have a postcard addressed to my grandfather Sidney Cleaver from his wife whilst at the hospital on 23rd October 1918 and my grandfather's WW1 diary. It finishes with the following information. 29th of September 1918. Started off at 5am after a good breakfast, this is rather a hot quarter, about 9am we had our officer gassed and then we had engine trouble and had to stop and he started shelling us, and he dropped one a bit close, I think that German must have been a decent sort as he gave me a nice little bit through my leg. Then I made my way back to an American dressing station and then went a bit further back in an ambulance to another station, where I was inoculated and then we went on a light railway to the 50th Casualty Clearing Station at Tincourt and got the wound dressed again and had something to eat and drink and was took to the hospital train at 9pm, don't know where we are going to, but we were soon asleep. 30th of September 1918, Woke up in the morning and was still travelling and arrived quite safe at Le Havre at 4pm and to the hospital at 5pm. It is a big hotel turned into an hospital, The Hotel Les Emigrants. Had a wash and change and was soon asleep again. 1st Oct 1918. Left hospital at 5pm for the hospital ship, but we did not sail till 11pm. 2nd Oct 1918. Arrived at Southampton 9am and went to the hospital train and went to Portsmouth to the 5th Southern General, Fawcett Rd. We were kept there 10 days and then were sent to an auxiliary hospital at Langton Towers, Havant it is a V.A.D. about 8 miles from Portsmouth. Was there about 6 weeks and went home the day after the Armistice was signed had a very good time and went on sick leave from Nov 12th to 22nd and then went to the depot at Wareham. Michael Cleaver Add to this record.   Pte. Joseph Kirkham MM 8 Bn TC 5 Tank Bde Tank Corps Private Joseph Kirkham was my grandfather and throughout my life I was aware of a large picture frame hanging in his home. It contained a small piece of paper with the following text "I have read with great pleasure the report of your Commanding Officer on your energy and good work against the enemy near Morcourt on 8th August 1918. This reflects credit on yourself and the whole Tank Corps". Granddad died in 1958 when I was still in primary school and never spoke of his experiences in the war. When grandma downsized in the late 1970s she asked if I would like to have this and of course I accepted and I always wondered what Graddad had done that merited such praise. In those days, before the internet, and being a busy working mum I didn't know where to go to find anything out about it. A couple of years ago a friend suggested contacting the Tank Museum at Bovington and to my surprise they passed on the citation report from the commanding officer himself. The citation reads "For devotion to duty during the operation of 8 August 1918 against MORCOURT. Private Kirkham rendered invaluable assistance when his tank was ditched. By his energy in assisting to dig out the tank, when the unditching gear was ineffective, it was able to proceed with the action. Later he kept his guns continuously working and was greatly responsible for demoralising the enemy. Throughout he displayed courage and spared himself in no way". It is signed by LtCol J Bingham, cmdg 8 Bn TC and with a recommendation for an immediate award of the MM. It goes without saying that granddad was a hero to me even before my discovery but my task now is to find out more about his military history and to see if he ever collected his award, which I suspect he didn't. Sybil Turner Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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