On Wednesday 16th March Roger Pugh came and gave us an illustrated talk entitled “The Most Secret Place on Earth”. This was the story of how the Military Tank was invented, and the first Tank force was created at Elveden, close to Thetford, in the utmost secrecy and despatched to France in 1916 to take part in the Battle of the Somme, resulting in the ultimate victory.
Roger gave some interesting information, like why it was called a Tank, this was to prevent information getting out to the public of what was being developed, as they also constructed Water Tanks for the army at this site.
