DEADLY BRITISH TANKS
UNITS IN NEW ZEALAND FOR TRAINING PURPOSES Some of Britain's new “killer” tanks —fast, deadly, and heavily gunned and armoured—have arrived in New Zealand. These tanks, of the Valentine type, are to be used in training the men of the new Army Tank Brigade, which has now been mobilized at Waiouru, where the Armoured Fighting Vehicle School was established last month. The Valentine, which is a 16-ton heavy infantry tank, carries in the main turret a two-pound gun capable of piercing any tank yet met in any German armoured formation. It carries a crew of three, is very manoeuvrable, and has a road speed of more than 45 miles an hour. Tank officers who have tested the Valentine claim that it will cruise across open country like a car on a good road. The men of the new Army Tank Brigade will be instructed by officers and non-commissioned officers who have been receiving an advance course of a highly intensive nature for the last month. The school is commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel H. B. M. Groves, Royal Armoured Corps, and the instructional staff consists largely of experienced officers and non-commissioned officers who returned to New Zealand last month after serving in tank brigades in action in the Western Desert and Greece.
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Southland Times, Issue 24576, 27 October 1941, Page 4
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213DEADLY BRITISH TANKS Southland Times, Issue 24576, 27 October 1941, Page 4
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