Second (and last) tank vs tank battle of the Great War, Niergnies/Seranvillers is much less known than Villers-Bretonneux, which many people think of as the only battle between tanks in WW1. I'm looking for articles and books which describe Niergnies/Seranvillers. What I already have is two books:
Hundleby & Strasheim "The German A7V Tank..." Kenneth Macksey "Tank versus Tank"
Heigl's Taschenbuch der Tanks. Teil III - Der Panzerkampf. J.F. Lehmanns Verlag, München-Berlin 1938.
Pages 150-153, Der zweite Panzerkampf bei Cambrai am 8.10.1918.
Jones, Rarey, Icks: The Fighting Tanks since 1916 (The National Service Publishing Company, Washington 1933) describes the battle only shortly in the page 48:
"On the 8th of October, 82 tanks of all types were used. On the Niergnies-La Targette line, Mark IV tanks of the 12th Battalion proved of great assistance to their infantry. A tank-against-tank action occurred near this area. The Germans used one male and three female tanks of the Mark IV type, which had been captured by them from the British. The British accounts of this action show that one of the 12th Battalion male tanks put the captured male tank out of action with a six-pounder shell; that one of the female tanks was knocked out by a shell fired by a tank officer from a captured German field gun; and that the other two female tanks retreated. Two British male tanks were struck during the fight, one of them being set on fire. A female tank was nearby, but had a leaky radiator and was about out of water. It was its crew which found and used the field gun."
-- Edited by MTorrent on Thursday 22nd of July 2010 03:49:21 PM
Oh, yes, I know about this article, I ordered this issue on eBay a few hours ago Unfortunately for me only French version was available (but luckily my Father knows French ). French version of this article is in Militaria Magazine No 115 and English version is in Militaria Magazine (U.S. Edition) No 13.
By the way, does anyone have Scale Models June 1993, in which there is also an article on beutepanzers? Unfortunetely this issue is not available on eBay at the moment.
-- Edited by Albert on Thursday 22nd of July 2010 03:01:40 PM
Looking through the haze of battle is not alway easy, but I think I got it right about Niergnies/Séranvillers in the upcoming Tankograd Beutepanzer volume.
Wow, great news! There is no info on Tankograd site so I didn't know about that. Will Rainer Strasheim and Max Hundleby be the authors? How many pages will there be and when will this book be available? I understand that the format of this book will be identical to the Tankograd book on A7V?
I've the narration ready and am just doing the captions. I guess it will have the size of the A7V book, although the number of pictures will certainly be higher.
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Captain (later Major) George Neville Bushman won the Military Cross and second award bar during the Great War. The citation for his bar is as follows:
Bar to M.C. London Gazette 15 February 1919 and 30 July 1919
Lt. Actg. Capt., Special Reserve attached to B Battery, 178th Brigade R.F.A.
On the morning of 8.October 1918 near Niergnies when our infantry were compelled by two enemy tanks and machine-gun fire to withdraw, this officer with one other officer and one N.C.O. turned a captured 77mm. gun into action. He went forward under heavy machine- gun fire to observe the fire and put both tanks out of action. He showed great gallantry and initiative.