Fuller entered the Royal Army as an 1899 graduate of Sandhurst. He fought in the Boer War and the Great War as the Tank Corp’s Chief of Staff (1916). Fuller planned the 1917 Battle of Cambrai ...
The Battle of Cambrai began in November, 1917. Royal Flying Corps aircraft dropped bombs on German anti-tank guns and strongpoints to clear a path for the Allied tanks and ground troops.
The French and the British saw armored vehicle effectiveness after the U.K. built the first-ever tank ... Battle of Flers-Courcelette and after the success it delivered at the Battle of Cambrai.