Franck Gustave Heap
2/Lt. Frank Gustave Heap was the Tank Commander of D51 Deborah, the Flesquières tank. Frank Heap was awarded the MC for guiding half his crew
The Book
The first object of my researches was to try and locate a tank with a view to establish a museum and to provide factual information
The Trench
The Trench was specifically built in October 2001 by the BBC for a programme of the same name. The result was so interesting and the
The Collections
The Louis Carnian Collection This is an extremely large collection of military artefacts covering the whole of WW1 kindly lent by Louis Carnian’s family following
The Monument
Monument to the Nations of the Battles of Cambrai In 1998 a tank from the Great War was unearthed on Flesquières ridge in northern France.
The story of Deborah
Table of Contents The discovery of Deborah The hunt for the tank at Flesquieres was inspired and led by Philippe Gorczynski, an historian of the
The Battle of Cambrai
The year 1917 was not ending in a positive way for the Allied Forces. The British and French Spring offensives did not bring the expected