Men from the Württemberg Gebirgs-Bataillon
walk around a captured French Renault FT light tank with the riveted
plate polygonal turret which could accommodate Hotchkiss machine-gun or
the Puteaux 37mm gun.
Following
the Battle of Cambrai in late 1917, the Germans found themselves in
possession of both the Battlefield and quite a large number of
knocked-out and abandoned Mk IV tanks. Almost immediately the Germans
began to salvage the tanks regardless of their condition. The
operational vehicles were repaired and the rest cannibalized for spare
parts.
