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About Ernest Dunlop Swinton
Major-General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, was a British Army officer who played a part in the development and adoption of the tank during the First World War. He was also a war correspondent and author of several short stories on military themes. He is credited, along with fellow officer Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Dally Jones, with having initiated the use of the word "tank" as a code-name for the first British, tracked, armoured fighting vehicles.
Everything about Ernest Dunlop Swinton →- Occupation
- engineer, university teacher, writer, military personnel
- Citizenship
- India, British Raj, United Kingdom, Dominion of India
- Born
- October 21, 1868
- Died
- January 15, 1951