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Robert Glennie
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Historian. Researching the British army in Normandy, Market Garden and beyond, North Africa, Middle Eastern Mandate days, the Med. Occasional trips east.
Independent Armoured Brigades. Tank pedantry.
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Robert Glennie @robertglennie.bsky.social · Dec 18
27th Armoured Brigade is really what started my research on Independent Armoured Brigades, where the general lack of information sent me to the archives.
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Sherman Vc ‘Spitfire’ from ‘A’ Squadron, East Riding Yeomanry, 27th Armoured Brigade, reverses onto LST361 at Gosport, 1st June 1944. Fitted with wading stacks and interestingly, the 17pdr is covered with a tarpaulin.

Derrick Knight behind the camera.

#27Armd #ERY #SWW #History #WW2 #TankMarkings
Sherman Vc Firefly tank reverses onto Landing Ship Tank.
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North Yorkshire Langdale moor fire fighters face exploding WWII ordinance - BBC News
The area was used for tank training and sunken shells have exploded, a senior firefighter says.
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August 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Lt. Brown sat in the centre, commander of ‘Lillingstone’, number ‘55’ a Sherman I from 4 Troop, C Squadron, 1 Northamptonshire Yeomanry.

Photographed #OTD 7th August 1944 by Sgt Wilkes.

Lillingstone was lost at St. Aignan, Lt. Brown and gunner, Tp. Monkman, both wounded.

IWM B8793 #1NY #33Armd
British tank crew by their tank
August 7, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Lt. Brown sat in the centre, commander of ‘Lillingstone’, number ‘55’ a Sherman I from 4 Troop, C Squadron, 1 Northamptonshire Yeomanry.

Photographed #OTD 7th August 1944 by Sgt Wilkes.

Lillingstone was lost at St. Aignan, Lt. Brown and gunner, Tp. Monkman, both wounded.

IWM B8793 #1NY #33Armd
British tank crew by their tank
August 7, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Has to be Sgt Bourne’s again #OTD
robertglennie.bsky.social Robert Glennie @robertglennie.bsky.social · May 23
Sgt Bourne had an eye for a good sunset.

Sherman III from 50th RTR, Sicily, 1st August 1943.

IWM NA 5424 #Sicily
#23Armd #50RTR #SWW #History #WW2
British tank with sunset in background.
August 1, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Has to be Sgt Bourne’s again #OTD
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Sgt Bourne had an eye for a good sunset.

Sherman III from 50th RTR, Sicily, 1st August 1943.

IWM NA 5424 #Sicily
#23Armd #50RTR #SWW #History #WW2
British tank with sunset in background.
August 1, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Horsepower! Around 600 or so…

A Cromwell IV ‘T187687’ from HQ 22nd Armoured Brigade, 7th Armoured Division, photographed #OTD 30th July 1944, by Sgt Bert Hardy.

Note out the combined formation badge ‘Stag’ with the Arm of Service ‘50’. #BritishTankMarkings

IWM B8183 #22Armd #7ArmdDivision #SWW
British tank passes French farmer with horses.
July 30, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Horsepower! Around 600 or so…

A Cromwell IV ‘T187687’ from HQ 22nd Armoured Brigade, 7th Armoured Division, photographed #OTD 30th July 1944, by Sgt Bert Hardy.

Note out the combined formation badge ‘Stag’ with the Arm of Service ‘50’. #BritishTankMarkings

IWM B8183 #22Armd #7ArmdDivision #SWW
British tank passes French farmer with horses.
July 30, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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A Churchill IV in the ruins of Maltot, photographed #OTD 26th July 1945, by Lt. Peter Handford, who is probably better known for his sound work.

The Churchill has German track links welded to the lower hull.

IWM B8051 #SWW #History
British tank in ruined French village
July 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Weekend reading is sorted
Cover of Marcel Zwarts’ book Einsatz Arnheim.
July 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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A Churchill IV in the ruins of Maltot, photographed #OTD 26th July 1945, by Lt. Peter Handford, who is probably better known for his sound work.

The Churchill has German track links welded to the lower hull.

IWM B8051 #SWW #History
British tank in ruined French village
July 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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North Irish Horse Churchill IV on the road to Florence, photographed by Sgt. Lambert #OTD 22nd July 1944.

IWM NA 17144 #SWW #History #WW2 #NIH
British tank on narrow dusty lane
July 22, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Stalking the Night Raider, by Roy Nockolds (1911-79), 1941.

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A Boulton Paul Defiant aircraft flies at night above the coast, in strong moonlight.
July 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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North Irish Horse Churchill IV on the road to Florence, photographed by Sgt. Lambert #OTD 22nd July 1944.

IWM NA 17144 #SWW #History #WW2 #NIH
British tank on narrow dusty lane
July 22, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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A Sherman V ARV Mk I, from 8th Infantry Brigade’s REME Workshop, 3rd Division, pulls a captured Pz IV near Cagny.
Sgt Laing photographed the action #OTD 19 July 1944.

IWM B 7762 #SWW #History #WW2 #ARV
British armoured recovery vehicle pulling a captured German tank
July 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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A Sherman V ARV Mk I, from 8th Infantry Brigade’s REME Workshop, 3rd Division, pulls a captured Pz IV near Cagny.
Sgt Laing photographed the action #OTD 19 July 1944.

IWM B 7762 #SWW #History #WW2 #ARV
British armoured recovery vehicle pulling a captured German tank
July 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Back with 27th Armd Bde today, this is ‘Belvedere’ a Sherman Vc from B Sqn Staffordshire Yeomanry, taken by Sgt Laing #OTD 18th July 44.

The name is barely visible in this image, but it’s lightly marked on the hull side in 12inch high letters!
#BritishTankMarkings

IWM B7513 #27Armd
#SWW #History
British tank with infantry and crew
July 18, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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‘Belvedere’ was clearly a popular subject, as also #OTD 18th July 1944, Sgt Christie took this dynamic shot.

In this image, the contrast is a little clearer and we can make out the lightly marked name. #BritishTankMarkings

IWM B7557 #27Armd #StaffYeo
#SWW #History #Firefly
British tank clears obstacles
July 18, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Back with 27th Armd Bde today, this is ‘Belvedere’ a Sherman Vc from B Sqn Staffordshire Yeomanry, taken by Sgt Laing #OTD 18th July 44.

The name is barely visible in this image, but it’s lightly marked on the hull side in 12inch high letters!
#BritishTankMarkings

IWM B7513 #27Armd
#SWW #History
British tank with infantry and crew
July 18, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Designed in New Zealand by Tpr. W. J. Robertson at the AFV School, WW2. This unditching gear required a small pit dug behing a stuck AFV and a hooked shackle attached to the track. Reversing the vehicle pulled itself back out. (Composited image) 1/2
July 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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A classic by Sgt. Bert Hardy,
and the cover star of David Fletcher’s ‘Mr Churchill’s Tank’.
#OTD 17 July 1944, 34th Tank Brigade.

Proving you didn’t need speed to kick up dust in Normandy.

IWM B7641 #SWW #History #WW2
British tank on dusty road
July 17, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Cyril Coles. Probably the world’s first tank fatality in combat.

#FWW #WW1 #Tanks #gwg
July 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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A classic by Sgt. Bert Hardy,
and the cover star of David Fletcher’s ‘Mr Churchill’s Tank’.
#OTD 17 July 1944, 34th Tank Brigade.

Proving you didn’t need speed to kick up dust in Normandy.

IWM B7641 #SWW #History #WW2
British tank on dusty road
July 17, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Sherman tanks advance across a dusty landscape in the area around Brettevillette in Normandy, 17 July 1944.

A70 83-6, Sgt Parkinson, AFPU
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July 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Probably a bit early, but cheers!🍻

#OTD 14 July 1944, beers from the NAAFI with Corporal Webb and Corporal Avery, I bet that tasted good.
Sgt Johnson with the camera.

IWM B 7271 #SWW #History #WW2
Two British soldiers drinking the good stuff.
July 14, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Any excuse to post Jimmy Mapham’s work…

‘Cymru-am-Byth’
13/18 Hussars, ARV, Sherman III, great composition, bloody brilliant!

IWM H38971 #27Armd
Tank crew sat on their recovery vehicle.
July 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM