Produced by Jeannie Howse and Friend, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) LIFE IN A TANK [Illustration: A TANK ON ITS WAY INTO ACTION] LIFE IN A TANK _By_ RICHARD HAIGH, M.C. CAPTAIN IN THE TANK CORPS _With Illustrations_ [Illustration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY RICHARD HAIGH ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published June 1918_ Contents I. The Meaning of the Tank Corps 1 II. First Days of Training 11 III. Later Days of Training 37 IV. Moving up the Line 49 V. Preparations for the Show 61 VI. The First Battle 76 VII. The Second Battle 90 VIII. Rest and Discipline 120 IX. A Philosophy of War 128 Illustrations A Tank on its Way into Action _Frontispiece_ British Official Photograph King George and Queen Mary inspecting a Tank on the British Front in France 8 British Official Photograph A British Tank and its Crew in New York 20 Photograph by Underwood & Underwood A Tank moving to the Attack down what was once a Main Street 56 British Official Photograph A Tank going over a Trench on its Way into Action 72 British Official Photograph A Tank halfway over the Top and awaiting the Order to Advance in the Battle of Menin Road 80 Photograph by Underwood & Underwood A Tank bringing in a Captured German Gun under Protection of Camouflage 112 Photograph by Underwood & Underwood A British Tank in the Liberty Loan Parade in New York 124 Photograph by Underwood & Underwood LIFE IN A TANK I THE MEANING OF THE TANK CORPS TANKS! To the uninitiated--as were we in those days when we returned to the Somme, too late to see the tanks make their first dramatic entrance--the name conjures up a picture of an iron monster, breathing fire and exhaling bullets and shells, hurling itself against the enemy, unassailable by man and impervious to the most deadly engines of war; sublime, indeed, in its expression of indomitable power and resolution.