page_title: Mark V tank
section_title: Surviving vehicles
hierarchical_section_title: Mark V tank / Surviving vehicles
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of the driver and forward machine gunner's seat on a Mark V** tank specifically the Bovington tank museum's Ol'Faithful
context_page_description: The British Mark V tank was an upgraded version of the Mark IV tank.
  The tank was improved in several aspects over the Mark IV, chiefly the new steering system, transmission and 150 bhp engine, but it fell short in other areas, particularly its insufficient ventilation leading to carbon monoxide poisoning for the crew. Various versions were fitted with a variety of armament including 6-pounder guns and machine guns.
  It was first deployed in July 1918 on the Western Front at the Battle of Hamel; then at the Battle of Amiens, and on the Hindenburg Line during the closing months of World War I.
  During the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War on the White Russian side, four Mark Vs were delivered to Archangelsk, four to Reval, Estonia, and around 70 were delivered to Novorossisk in southern Russia. The survivors were captured and used by the Red Army.
  There were two main further variants, the lengthened Mark V* and a few Mark V**s with a more powerful engine and wider tracks. A planned Mark V*** was never built. There are eleven surviving Mark V tanks.
context_section_description: Eleven Mark V tanks survive. The majority are in Russia or Ukraine and are survivors of the tanks sent there to aid the White forces during the Russian Civil War.
  The Tank Museum, Bovington displays a Mark V Male, Number 9199. It was in action at the Battle of Amiens where its commander – Lt. HA Whittenbury – was awarded the Military Cross. It was subsequently damaged by artillery at Bellicourt in September 1918, during the Hundred Days Offensive. It has been at Bovington since 1925, and was used for demonstrations and filming. While this tank is maintained in running condition, the Bovington museum had made the decision to not run it again, because of the wear and tear that would be inflicted on the now-fragile, historic vehicle.
  A heavily restored Mark V Male, Devil, survives at the London Imperial War Museum. The right sponson was removed to allow a view of the tank's interior, but in the Museum's 2013 - 2014 refit the vehicle was resited in such a way that the interior is no longer visible to the public.
  A Mark V Composite is at the Kubinka Tank Museum, Russia.
  A Mark V Female serves as memorial in Arkhangelsk. This was originally used by British forces during the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War.
  Two preserved Mark Vs, both Composites, form part of an outdoor memorial at Luhansk in Ukraine. Two more are in storage.
  A Mark V Composite is at the M. F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum, Ukraine.
  A Mark V* Male, Number 9591, has been part of the collection of the National Armor and Cavalry Museum, Fort Benning, Georgia since 2010. Issued to Company A, US 301st Heavy Tank Battalion and hit by a 57 mm (2 in) shell round on 27 September 1918 during the attack against the Hindenburg Line, it was repaired and sent back to the United States. It is the only surviving example of the Mark V*.
  A Mark V** Female: Ol'Faithful, is also preserved at Bovington. It never saw action during the war, but post–war was fitted with hydraulic lifting gear so it could carry and deploy portable bridges, and carry out other engineering tasks. During World War 2, it was used as a ballast weight to test Bailey bridges.
caption: The driving and forward gunner position of Ol'Faithful
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