Original booklets and pamphlets relating to Tanks of the Great War (14) Tank Corps, Provisional Handbook of the Chaser Mark I (Whippet), booklet, 29 pages; Instructions for the Training of the Tank Corps in France, 1917, booklet, 48 pages; Tanks and their Employment in Co-operation with other Arms, 1918, booklet, 18 pages; Tank Corps Journal (4), April, May, June and December 1919, magazines, each approx. 28 well illustrated pages; Tank Coloured Disc and Light Code, folded card; Lewis Gun Stoppages: Tank Corps M.G. School, single sheet; Ticket Form, for a show at the London Hippodrome, for the Tank Corps Prisoners of War Fund, folded sheet; German Tank - Sketch of Tank used at Villers-Bretonneux, 24 April 1918, folded sheet - its vulnerable points being highlighted; The German Tank “Elfriede” (A7V) (2), description with sketch of interior with photographs of exterior, 3 pages; The Employment of Tanks by the Germans in the Attacks of the 31st May and the 1st June North and East of Reims (translated from French), 3 pages plus map, generally in good condition, an interesting lot (14) £50-70

German A7V tanks were first used in action north of the St, Quentin Canal on 21 March 1918, when five were deployed; three suffering a mechanical breakdown. German A7V tank number 542, named ‘Elfriede’, was lost to the French at Villers-Bretonneux on 24 April 1918. In late 1918 it was on display at the Place de la Concorde.