i'll get to Bovington somehow, and then the rest of my plan is relatively easy
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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The Tank Museum in Bovington has partnered with Commando Comics to produce a selection of tank themed merchandise, including a new comic collection, Commando Presents The Tank Collection
Tank Museum and Commando team up, offering new collection and collectibles
New collection on sale, currently exclusive to the Tank Museum
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October 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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I'm gonna manufacture a situation in which I somehow get arrested for Section 5 Public Order, but it's by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham or the Taliban in like Bovington Gurney or something and I get tortured but also get NFA'ed 3 days later.
October 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Our @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference is a month away! With many talks and seminars to choose from. From the Royal Logistics Corps Museum, Samantha Jolley is going to be telling us all about tank drivers from the Army Service Corps!
September 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Yes....I was fascinated by him too, dad was a huge fan of the Lean movie and that was what got us kids interested. But when older, I got more intrigued by his life at Clouds Hill when serving at Bovington.
September 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Bovington Tank Museum, my parents took me for my 21st birthday
February 12, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Let’s see if Bovington legal does a SLAPP.
April 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Sounds brilliant! My late father was REME on tanks post-war Germany-do like Bovington. Museum on I of Wight is good as well.
August 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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For "Throwback Thursday", some photos from my trip to the UK in 2018.
October 12, 2023 at 12:04 PM
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National Armor and Cavalry Collection vs Bovington Tank Museum
November 27, 2024 at 1:18 AM
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Yeah, my grandfather came over in 1936 from Newfoundland and joined up at Newport, spent WWII at Bovington because he was a regular and a tank trainer. Used to get the train home to his wife in Boscombe and catch the milk train back to Wool until he was put on a charge for it!
August 19, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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Was recently at the Ashmolean in Oxford: definitely one of the best UK museums IMHO.
Someone else mentioned it, but at least part of the issue is unsuitable buildings for modern curation.
I will give a shout/out for the Tank Museum in Bovington I visited yesterday: tanks ARE art aren’t they? 👀🫡
Someone else mentioned it, but at least part of the issue is unsuitable buildings for modern curation.
I will give a shout/out for the Tank Museum in Bovington I visited yesterday: tanks ARE art aren’t they? 👀🫡
October 12, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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Seeing the tanks on show has reminded me that one of the few downsides to my marriage is that my wife's birthday perpetually coincides with Bovington Tank museum's TankFest weekend and she's made it clear that would not count as a "romantic trip".
June 15, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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"War in France and Flanders 1939-1940" by L.F. Ellis would be a good start...
I would also suggest asking Bovington.
Maybe you think that The École de guerre-Terre has a better understanding of the British army than Sandhurst or the IWM?
I would also suggest asking Bovington.
Maybe you think that The École de guerre-Terre has a better understanding of the British army than Sandhurst or the IWM?
May 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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A second prototype of the Assault Tank T14 arrived at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds #OTD in 1943. It showed just as many issues as the first one and was eventually forwarded to the British. This tank is now a part of the tank collection at Bovington. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII
August 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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I am indeed I will be heading to Bovington 🙂
September 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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But it was certainly no beauty queen.
While other tanks - e.g. the T-34 & Crusader - cleverly used angled armour, the Tiger I looked like it was brutally sculpted from a couple of large blocks of cheap margarine.
As for its hideous, snub-nosed bastard son, the Sturmtiger, ugh...
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While other tanks - e.g. the T-34 & Crusader - cleverly used angled armour, the Tiger I looked like it was brutally sculpted from a couple of large blocks of cheap margarine.
As for its hideous, snub-nosed bastard son, the Sturmtiger, ugh...
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January 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Bovington is a fabulous museum, but it's sold it soul to the wehraboos
Who wouldn't want some comfy slippers shaped like a Nazi death machine built by slave labour?
Who wouldn't want some comfy slippers shaped like a Nazi death machine built by slave labour?
April 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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So, IIRC, the oldest surviving Sherman today is the very early M4A1 "Michael" at Bovington, right?
April 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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I've used it three times - Bovington Tank Museum, Portsmouth Royal Dockyards, and London Transport Museum in my limited use of GiftAid.
June 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Win a trip for 4 to The Tank Museum Bovington including a personal guided tour. Huge thanks to @tankmuseum.bsky.social for offering up such a great prize. Enter the #kitoff4victory Raffle only at WeHaveWays Warfest V this September. Plenty more prizes to come too. @almurray.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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FV101 Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) Scimitar at the Tank Museum at Bovington.#Armour #Recce #Scimitar #CVRT #Tankmuseum #Bovingtontankmuseum
November 23, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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When I first saw the photo my immediate reaction was “Bovington is getting some really recent armor.”
December 24, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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Sketchfileds is good especially for planes and cars..Bovington is tank paradise...the bloody books are great i always come out with an ''essential purchase''
February 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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