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Reference WMO/291766

Address:

Normanton Recreation Ground

Warwick Avenue

New Normanton

Derby

DE23 8DA

England

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Status: Destroyed
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Trophy/Relic
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
Lettering: No lettering
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: A WW1 Mk IV tank, number 136. The site is now known as Normanton Park. The tank was sited just inside the main entrance which at that time was on a track off Stenson Road, Warwick Ave not being constructed until later. Following the conclusion of hostilities the government decided to present surplus tanks to towns which had funded them as a memorial to the contributions made by the civilian population. Contemporary press reports, and the speeches reported at the presentation ceremony, make it clear that the tank was a memorial to the civilian contribution to the war effort. Tank 136 is described in some reports as being a female but the tank in the Derby Telegraph photograph of 2016 [ibid] appears to have a canon protruding from the sponson, which would make it a male.
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