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10/11/2018 at 20:14 #103590
A few years ago, this was parked outside the local museum & my kids (along with others) could climb all over it.
After some restoration, it now & fittingly, has pride of place.
donald
10/11/2018 at 22:25 #103593It is a good looking Museum.
10/11/2018 at 22:35 #103594It is a good looking Museum.
The Aussies take WW1 very seriously. I believe their armed forces had the most casualties as a percentage of the population than any other participant.
For Australia, from a population of fewer than five million, 416,809 men enlisted, of whom more than 60,000 were killed and 156,000 wounded, gassed, or taken prisoner.
Pretty sobering.
donald
12/11/2018 at 16:20 #103672That is extremely cool. I would love to be able to see and climb on and in one. The WW1 tanks hold a sort of mythological status for me. They seem so huge yet I know they were a lot smaller than my mind paints them…
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12/11/2018 at 23:55 #103727I would very much like to see “Mephisto” in person but I know that will never happen. I can console myself with being able to see a number of WWI tanks at Bovington instead. They have an A7V there, but sadly it’s just a replica. But you can climb in and out of one or two of the exhibits, and they are quite large, bigger than many a WWII tank.
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13/11/2018 at 00:46 #103728Mephisto always seems big. Whether inside in the exhibit hall or out in the museum grounds, it dominates the space. I’d love to see a Mark 1 sitting next to it but the Diggers used the various ones they “captured” , ground down, as shaving blades.
donald
13/11/2018 at 15:27 #103759Nothing says “manly” like using a tank to shave….
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18/12/2018 at 04:53 #105962I took quite a few pictures of Mephisto when it was on display in Canberra a few years ago. I blogged them here:
https://hordesofthethings.blogspot.com/2016/03/mephisto.html
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18/12/2018 at 14:52 #105985That is awesome! Thanks! At first I was shocked by how huge it was, then I realized it was on a plinth/platform. Beautiful pictures.
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18/12/2018 at 15:29 #105987Nice photos, thanks.
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22/12/2018 at 06:18 #106207That is awesome! Thanks! At first I was shocked by how huge it was, then I realized it was on a plinth/platform. Beautiful pictures.
It is still pretty big though. Unfortunately they’d displayed it in such a way that it was difficult to get a long-shot of it such that you could appreciate the length.
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