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Matilda tank bogged down on soft ground, 24 July 1941.

A Matilda tank and a Valentine of 40th Royal Tank Regiment, 23rd Armoured Brigade, 8th Armoured Division being 'bulled up' at Crowborough in Sussex for a 'Speed the Tanks' parade in London, 28 July 1941.

Matilda tank and crew of 49th Royal Tank Regiment at rest during an exercise in Kent, 13 October 1941.

A Matilda tank, army lorries and troops pass through a town during Exercise 'Bumper', 30 September 1941

Tanks assembled at Biggin Hill in Kent for inspection by the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Peter Fraser, 11 July 1941. In the foreground is a Matilda III CS, armed with a 3-inch howitzer, while Valentines are lined up behind.

Matilda tanks in a town during an anti-invasion exercise in the South of England, 15 June 1941.

The crew of a Matilda tank prepares breakfast in front of their vehicle, during an anti-invasion exercise in the South of England, 15 June 1941.

Matilda II tank of the Royal Tank Regiment, 1st Armoured Division, being transported aboard a flatbed railway wagon, 22 July 1940.

Matilda tanks being loaded onto ships at Liverpool docks for shipment to the Soviet Union, 17 October 1941.

Troops of the 5th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry, shelter behind a Matilda II tank of 42nd Royal Tank Regiment during manoeuvres at Knowsley Park, Prescot, near Liverpool, 30 July 1940. A Vickers Medium tank can be seen in the background.

Newly-completed Matilda tanks leave the Vulcan Foundry at Newton-Le-Willows in Lancashire, 3 October 1941.

Matilda tanks of 44th Royal Tank Regiment on the clifftops at Seaford Head, Sussex, 15 March 1941.

Matilda tanks of 'B' Squadron, 44th Royal Tank Regiment, on an exercise near Worthing, 31 December 1940.

Matilda tanks of 'B' Squadron, 43rd Royal Tank Regiment , 25th Army Tank Brigade, using gorse bushes as cover on an exercise near Brighton, Sussex, May 1941.

Matilda tanks of 'B' Squadron, 43rd Royal Tank Regiment , 25th Army Tank Brigade, on an exercise in Southern Command, 15 May 1941

Matilda tank of 6th Armoured Division during large-scale manoeuvres near Thetford in Norfolk, 26-28 April 1941.