125 - Mechanisation of British Cavalry Units and Tank Doctrine
The WW2 Podcast
Angus Wallace
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In episode 107, I talked to Ian Mitchell about the Battle of the Peaks and Longstop Hill in North Africa. Ian subsequently emailed me suggesting I talk to Sam Wallace, a post graduate researcher at Leeds University, who was working on some interesting stuff; Sam's PhD is titled The Allied Sandbox: The Tunisian Campaign and the Development of Allied Warfighting Methods, 1942-43.
After chatting with Sam, we decided to look at his MA thesis which is titled Arme Blanche to Armoured Warfare: The Process of Mechanisation within the British Cavalry and the Construction of British Tank Doctrine, c.1925-45,which covers the interwar decision to mechanise the British cavalry arm, and the impacts this decision had on the resulting development of British armoured doctrine, regimental identity and the effectiveness of British armour in the Second World War.
It's a great episode, for patreons we've got almost another 30min of us discussing the universal tank and our opinions of Claude Auchinleck.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:02.0 | another episode of the World War II podcast, I'm Angus Wallace. |
| 0:06.0 | In episode 107, I talked to Ian Mitchell about the Battle of the Peaks |
| 0:12.0 | and Longstop Hill in North Africa. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, I had an email recently from Ian suggesting I talked to Sam Wallace. |
| 0:21.0 | Sam is a postgraduate researcher at Leeds University who is working on some interesting stuff. |
| 0:27.3 | His PhD is titled The Allied Sandbox, the Tunisian campaign and the development of Allied war fighting methods |
| 0:36.6 | 1942 43 after some back and forth with Sam we decided to look at his MA dissertation which explores the mechanization |
| 0:47.1 | of British cavalry units through the 1920s 30s and into the Second World War and discuss their doctrine for the use of armor. |
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