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Photo's taken at Bovington Tank Museum, ( http://www.tankmuseum.org/ ), during the Battlegroup South wargame show held at the museum on the weekend of the 1st and 2nd of July 2006. The majority of the photgraphs are of the fantastic military vehicles they have on disply and only include a part of the collection. The rest of the photo's are of some of the games that were put on by various clubs during the weekend. I appologise if any of the close up's are slightly out of focus but I was using the macro facility on my camera without a tripod. Please feel free to download any of the images, the larger images are 1024 x 768, but if you would like an even larger picture, (2048 x 1536), I can e-mail them to you direct. Please note though that these full size images are approx 1.2Mg each.

A replica of the Royal Armoured Corps Memorial. The origianl bronze statue is in Whitehall Place, London.

The group was originally designed by George Henry Paulin in 1953 as a contender for a proposed Royal Armoured Corps memorial. It was adapted by Vivien Mallock and cast by Morris Singer of Hampshire. This is a full size fibreglass master from which the mould was made.

The statue depicts the crew of a Royal Tank Regiment Comet in North West Europe early in 1945; the Commander with his binoculars, the gunner with telescopic sight & the hull gunner with his Besa machine-gun. The statue stands near the entrance to the museum and is floodlit at night.

Pre WW2

Little Willie
Internal View of a Mk IV
Mk IV
Renault FT-17
Mk IV
Interior of a Mk VI looking forward past the engine to the driver compartment
Interior of a Mk VI looking at the driver compartment
Renault FT17
Vickers Armstrong Mk E (left) and a Vickers Armstrong Commercial Light Tank
Austin Armoued Car
Rolls Royce Armoured Car
Crossley Armoured Car
Carden-Lloyd Carrier Mk VI
Light Tank Mk IIA
WW2
Char S35 Somua
A10 cruiser tank
A9 Cruiser Tank Mk I
A13 Cruiser Tank Mk III
Matilda Mk I
Driver compartment Matilda Mk I
Churchill
Jagdpanther
Pzkfw VI King Tiger
Sdkfz 234
M9A1 Half Track
Pzkfw II Ausf L Luchs
KV 1
T26 Model 1933
Pzkfw V Panther
SU76
Sdkfz 186 Jagdtiger
View of the fighting compartment of the Jagdtiger
Pzkfw IV D/H
Pzkfw IV D/H
M3A3 Stuart Light Tank
T17E1 Staghound Armoured Car
AEC Armoured Car Mk II
Archer 17pdr SP
Covenanter Cruiser Tank Mk V
Sherman Mk V Crab Flail
Comet
Ha Go Light Tank Type 95
Australian Cruiser Tank Mk. 1 "Sentinel"
88mm Pak 43 Anti Tank Gun
88mm Pak 43 Anti Tank Gun
Sherman Firefly
Cromwell Mk IV
Sherman M4A1
Tetrarch Light Tank Mk VII inside the body of a Hamilcar glider
Thornycroft Bison with concrete cab and body
Morris Light Reconnaissance Car Mk I
Matilda Canal Defence Light
Cruiser Tank Ram Mk II
Post WW2
T34/85
Patton
FV601 Saladin Armoured Car
BMP 1
T72
T18 Boarhound
Mk VI Marmon-Herrington
Modified T55
Challenger
Challenger
Ferrer 2/6 Scout Car
SU100
Humber Hornet - FV1620 armed with Malkara ATGM
Daimler Dingo
Black Prince
Tortoise
Battlegroup Wargames Show Games
View across the WW2 hall.
View across the WW2 hall towards the Western Dessert exhibits. Normally the Tiger I would be here but unfortunately it was in the workshops.
View of some of the games and traders in the Tamiya hall. This hall contains many cold war vehicles. It also used to house a large display of Tamiya models but these are no longer displayed.
6mm micro armour game in the George Forty Hall.
Eben Emael game
Pegesus Bridge by Battlegroup South
Close up of Pegesus Bridge
One of the assault gliders
Gun/Patrol boat
Gun/Patrol boat
Rhodesian War with helicopters and parachutists
Rhodesian War. Grassland is made from teddy bear fur neatly trimmed. made for very effective grassland/velt
Excellent Normandy game. Terrain, figures and vehicles were very good.
Close up of the action as a StuG moves up.
Overhead shot of the whole battlefield
Another Normandy game thistime covering part of the landings.
Again fantastic well modelled terain, vehicle and men. The water was particularly effective
Wider shot of the town. The game board continued for at least anothe 6 to 8 feet to the left.
Early WW2 Mediterranean game
View from the business end of a Stuka attack
Large WWI game. Nicely detailed village and superb period vehicles
Close up of some of the vehicles
French Monoplane over the battlefield
A Back of Beyond game with tanks, cavalry, bi-planes the works.
Airpark in the background with armour and artillery in front.
One of the superbly modelled WWI type tanks.