Churchill Mk. V
This British Churchill tank named “Jackal” was part of the 4th Battalion of the Coldstream Guards. The crew consisted of five men. After a hard-fought journey through France and Belgium, they arrived in Overloon in October 1944. There, the tank hit a German anti-tank mine that crushed the underside and caused it to burn out. Driver Bob Dare was slightly wounded and managed just in time to pull two seriously injured crew members out of the tank—front gunner J. Lambert and commander J. Garner. The other two comrades, R. Silman and G. Wright, were killed. Until his death in 2007, Bob Dare regularly returned to Overloon to commemorate his fallen comrades Silman and Wright, who are buried in the military cemetery in Overloon.
