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- 1919 (Creation)
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Collection of press cuttings including the victory despatch of FM Sir Douglas Haig, The Times, 8 Jan 1919; a group of cuttings relating to the Tanks Association; an article recounting the history of the development of tanks; an article on the causes of the German defeat in World War One, citing the tank (The Daily Telegraph, 7 Jan 1919); an article on the Whippet (Medium Mark A) tank (The Morning Post, 11 Jan 1919); a letter from George Fyfe, the Evening Standard, London to Stern and a proof of an interview with Stern, describing the opposition of the War Office to him during his service in World War One, including an account of the way in which an order by the War Office to hand over the plans of the tank to Russia in 1916 was evaded by the substitution of a spoof drawing, which Stern was convinced subsequently fell into the hands of the German General Staff and a cutting from Popular Science Monthly containing illustrated proposals for a giant three wheeled war machine.
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Originals of photocopied personal correspondence (Section 1/17) are at Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone.