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Tanks were used in battle for the first time, by the British, on 15 September. Still mechanically unreliable, the tanks were rushed into action in small groups. Many broke down, and the Germans soon devised ways to stop them.

New Zealand troops and the tank 'Jumping Jennie' in a trench at Gommecourt Wood, France during the First World war

New Zealand mounted troopers inspect a British Mk I tank destroyed during the Second Battle of Gaza, April 1917.

Soldiers use a sheet and palm leaves to camouflage HMLS Kia Ora from enemy aircraft at Deir el-Belah, May 1917.

This film shows action at the Battle of the Somme in September 1916 and the Battle of Messines in June 1917.

The old and the new. A horse-drawn team passes a tank that seems to have broken down on the side of the road. Over 100,000 British horses were estimated to have been killed in the Somme offensive.

British Light Tank Mk VI destroyed in Galatas. The tank was one of two that supported the New Zealand counter-attack on Galatas, 25 May 1941.