The world's first tank was invented in Lincoln in 1916, but any visitor to the City today would have a difficult job finding any recognition of this fact. Next year, this will all change with the unveiling of an ambitious memorial, which will commemorate the creation of the tank and the inventive minds that built it. The Lincoln Tank Memorial Group have designed a monument to be made from Corten steel, the same material that the Angel of the North is created from and it will be surrounded by figures depicting the civilian and military workers who worked around the clock to deliver the new weapon to the Army. The group is still fundraising and has now received a very generous donation of £10,000 from the makers of the phenomenally successful online strategy game World of Tanks. The memorial will be a life size, two-dimensional representation of a Mk I tank of the type designed and built by William Foster & Co. Ltd in 1916. The idea behind the monument is to celebrate Lincoln's engineering achievements and its contribution to breaking the stalemate of the Great War. With planning and fundraising going very well, it is hoped that the memorial will be unveiled next year, coinciding with national commemorations of the beginning of the First World War.
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