Despite its horrific toll, the battle introduced new tactics, including the first use of tanks. This documentary explores the brutal realities of the Somme, the strategic failures, and the long ...

NARRATOR: Cambrai was the first battle where tanks took on a decisive role. Tanks and new tactics involving tanks would eventually play their part in winning the Great War. Horace Birks stayed in ...

It was at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on the Somme, in September 1916, that tanks first went into action. If there is an originator of the tank it was Lt Col (later Major-General) Sir Ernest ...

But when World War One started they became weapons ... It weighed 18 tons and held a crew of two plus four gunners. It was the first completed tank in history but it never went out to war.

Less than a year before, the first ever tanks were used during the Battle of the Somme - with mixed results. Ukrainian servicemen ride aboard a self-propelled Howitzer armoured vehicle near ...