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The Tank Museum (previously the Bovington Tank Museum) is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles at Bovington Camp in Dorset, South West England. It is about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the village of Wool and 12 miles (19 km) west of the major port of Poole. The collection traces the history of the tank with almost 300 vehicles on display.
Bovington Camp (/ ˈ b ɒ v ɪ ŋ t ən /) is a British Army military base in Dorset, South West England.Together with Lulworth Camp it forms part of Bovington Garrison.. The garrison is home to The Armour Centre and contains two barracks complexes and two forest and heathland training areas that support Phase Two training for soldiers of the Royal Armoured Corps and trade training for the ...
Tiger 131 at The Tank Museum in Bovington, Dorset, England, 2017. In December 2003, Tiger 131 returned to the museum with a working engine, making it the only operable Tiger tank in the world and the most popular exhibit at the museum. [ 14 ]
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Bovington Garrison: England Dorset 1899 Headquarters, Royal Armoured Corps [121] Regimental Headquarters, Royal Wessex Yeomanry [122] The Armour Centre [123] [124] Lulworth Camp Bovington Garrison England Dorset 1918 Armoured Fighting Vehicle Gunnery School [125]
It is an enlarged version of a maquette by George Henry Paulin in the Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, which dates to 1953. Mallock's husband had been an officer in the RTR in the 1960s. [2] A resin cast of Mallock's group also stands outside the Tank Museum. [2] The memorial was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II, Colonel-in-Chief of the RTR, on 13 ...
Lulworth Camp is a British Army base that is home to the Armoured Fighting Vehicle Gunnery School and runs the Lulworth Ranges on the southern coast of Dorset, England.It is part of Bovington Garrison and is located on the Purbeck Ridge between the villages of East and West Lulworth.
The Lulworth Ranges are military firing ranges located between Wareham and Lulworth in Dorset, England.They cover an area of more than 2,830 hectares (7,000 acres), [1] are leased in a rolling contract from the Weld Estate by the Ministry of Defence and are part of the Armoured Fighting Vehicles Gunnery School based at Lulworth Camp. [2]