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Smalls tastes victory in big field at Heritage Coast Walk / Run.

1916
Lord Salisbury’s golf course saw the first test drive of ’Mother’, the new lozenge-shaped armoured vehicle which would be code-named the ‘tank’.It was used in the battle of the Somme when 400 tanks attacked the enemy.

From the East Anglian Daily Times May 9th 2003