the Tank Supply Committee. Tank deployment The tank was first deployed to the battle of the Somme in September 1916. Immediate aftermath In 1919 Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors held a session on the inventor of the tank. Footnotes Bibliography Hankey, Maurice, The Supreme Command, Volume I (1914-1918), London: Allen 1961 Encyclopædia Britannica. Admiralty Landships Committee. Retrieved 8 July 2012. Fletcher, David; Harley, Dick. Tankette, Volume 15, Issue 6. Glanfield, John. The Devil's Chariots, 2001. Stern, Albert. Albert Stern Papers, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London. Sueter, Murray. The Evolution of the Tank, 1937. Swinton, Major-General Sir Ernest D. Eyewitness Doubleday, Doran & Co, (1933) Hochschild, Adam, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion: 1914-1918, Boston: Houghton, 2011 Further reading Internet Archive : Link Spartacus Educational: Ernest Swinton United Kingdom in World War I History of the tank Armoured fighting vehicles Committees Off-road vehicles