The Mark VI light tank prompts a family story about a Royal Navy officer who ended up in a tankette in northern France. A surviving photograph places the relative in France, but no unit has been identified. Various theories exist about this unusual service connection. The relative had died before the circumstances could be settled, and further research was still planned.
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A Royal Navy officer's unexplained connection to a Mark VI light tank
A family story links a Royal Navy officer to a Mark VI light tank in northern France, with the unit and circumstances still unknown.