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manic47 t1_j0fpnef wrote

The Tank Museum at Bovington has a load of information about WW1 crews.

There’s a big exhibit there about Fray Bentos and which details the crew and their ranks.

They have details of lots of other tanks and their crew too, this is just the most famous one.

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Delvestius OP t1_j0guozv wrote

This is helpful, but I'd like more information. It just says "gunner" between sargent and lance corporal. Does this mean they were corporals?

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manic47 t1_j0gwwjo wrote

Gunner was a rank - basically the Royal Artillery equivalent of a private.

AFAIK Lance Bombardier & Bombardier was the RA equivalents to Lance Corporals and Corporals. I'm not sure why Fray Bentos is listed as having an LC serving in it - it might simply have been due the way ranks were structured at that exact time, and the fact the RA was three separate branches.

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