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The Bovington Tank Military Museum, Dorset, United Kingdom
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The museum may be reached by bus from Wool railway station, which is about 1.5 miles away.
History
In 1916 the British War Office established the Bovington camp as a tank crew training facility. At that time the Army was introducing tanks into the First World War in an attempt to break the stagnation of trench warfare. In 1919 the tanks returned to Bovington from France. Many of them were fit only for scrap. However, a small number of the least damaged vehicles were put to one side so that tank crews and designers could have an idea of the tank's early heritage.
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