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Unique ID: 1377 Added to Database: 1 November 2010 Last Edited: 24 March 2012 Type (ID): Centurion (3475) Model (ID): Centurion (3475) Location Category (ID): The Tank Museum - Reserve Collection (3016) Location (ID): Storage (3016) Serial Number: 69: “ROF/L Hull 69/450 III” (source: Museum Vehicle Record). Registration: “09 BA 97” painted on nose and hull rear (and over-painted on nose). Name: Other Identification: “40796T ESC” cast into left turret side. Painted overall in pale grey. Collection Reference: E1998.313. (Accession 1598). Links: Museum Vehicle Record Wikipedia: MILAN References: Associated Tanks: Location History: (see map) 1: Royal Ordnance Factory, Barnbow, Crossgates, Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, Britain (Manufacturer of base vehicle) 2: Land Warfare Centre, Warminster, Wiltshire, South West England, Britain (Ranges and 27 Command Workshops REME) 3: Larkhill Live Firing Range, Salisbury Plain Training Area (SPTA), Wiltshire, South West England, Britain (2003 – unconfirmed) 4: The Tank Museum - Reserve Collection, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (Current location) Text in original Preserved British Tanks publication: [No entry] Text in Preserved British Tanks Update: [No entry] Text in original Preserved Tanks In Britain publication: This tank was originally built as a Centurion Mark 3, to contract 6/FV/3891 dated 7 February 1952. The contractor was Director General of Ordnance Factories and involved a total of 450 tanks (cut back from an original order for 650). The first 377 (09BA28 to 13BA04) were completed as Mark 3 with the co-axial 7.92mm Besa, the remaining 73 (13BA05 to 13BA77) as Mark 5 with the .30 Browning. It was registered in service on 22 September 1952. Its early history is not recorded but a later card records it as being ‘Recovered’ (suggesting that it had spent some time on a target range) in 1975 and passing to HQ and Admin Wing, School of Infantry at Warminster. 27 Command Workshops REME, based at Warminster, is known to have converted three redundant Centurions to Range Target Tanks by sealing all apertures and laying on as much additional armour as possible. Various regiments are shown as operating this tank while acting as the demonstration battalion at Warminster including, in April 1984, 1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, from November 1984, 1st Battalion Worcester & Sherwood Foresters Regiment and, in August 1986, 2nd Battalion Royal Green Jackets. The tanks were used as mobile targets to train infantry in anti-tank operations using the Milan and Carl Gustav, firing inert projectiles. There is a possibility that 09BA97 was at Larkhill in 2003, possibly acting as a moving target for Swingfire. (Source: Museum Vehicle Record). This tank was moved into storage from beside one of the museum entrance roads in November 2011 (source: Museum Vehicle Record).

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March 2011 1: Front left view Taken: 8 March 2011 Contributor: M. Foti Photo ID: 7213 Added: 26 March 2012 Filename: 58446200... Views: 283 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		2: Front view Taken: 8 March 2011 Contributor: M. Foti Photo ID: 7214 Added: 26 March 2012 Filename: 58440755... Views: 287 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		3: Front left view Taken: 6 March 2011 Contributor: M. Foti Photo ID: 7211 Added: 26 March 2012 Filename: 58446114... Views: 229 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
4: Front right view Taken: 6 March 2011 Contributor: M. Foti Photo ID: 7212 Added: 26 March 2012 Filename: 58446155... Views: 277 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
October 2008 5: Front left view Taken: 30 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 3911 Added: 1 November 2010 Filename: P1040151... Views: 166 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		6: Left view Taken: 30 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 3912 Added: 1 November 2010 Filename: P1040152... Views: 169 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		7: Rear left view Taken: 30 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 3913 Added: 1 November 2010 Filename: P1040153... Views: 195 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
8: Rear view Taken: 30 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 3914 Added: 1 November 2010 Filename: P1040154... Views: 170 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		9: Rear right view Taken: 30 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 3915 Added: 1 November 2010 Filename: P1040155... Views: 191 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		10: Right view Taken: 30 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 3916 Added: 1 November 2010 Filename: P1040156... Views: 186 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
11: Front view Taken: 30 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 3917 Added: 1 November 2010 Filename: P1040150... Views: 179 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		12: Turret close-up Taken: 30 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 3918 Added: 1 November 2010 Filename: P1040174... Views: 172 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		13: Engine deck Taken: 30 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 3919 Added: 1 November 2010 Filename: P1040176... Views: 160 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
14: Left side of turret Taken: 30 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 3920 Added: 1 November 2010 Filename: P1040175... Views: 165 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		15: Registration on nose Taken: 30 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 3921 Added: 1 November 2010 Filename: P1040173... Views: 177 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		16: Overview Taken: 30 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 3922 Added: 1 November 2010 Filename: P1040158... Views: 195 Select/Has Priority: 21/0

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