A ex-Australian Army Centurion tank bush bashing at South Gippsland Tank Adventures, to promote the tank's launch inside the global PC game World of Tanks. Photo by Brian Hartigan.

Jungle Centurions

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Far from the muddied fields of Cambrai
Where their ancestors first stalked the battle
Great beasts of steel in a jungle lair
Await the coming fray.

Engines set to idle drone their ritual mantra 
The solemn chorus of mechanical warriors
Seeking solace from their god-protector
In congregation at a verdant altar.

We who tend these beasts must endure
Our great charges to rouse from prayer
Only then sure they will heed the call
To be once more our beasts of war.

By Frank Meredith
Tango 21
October 1969

FILE PHOTO: A former Australian Army Centurion tank bush bashing at South Gippsland Tank Adventures, to promote the tank’s launch inside the global PC game World of Tanks. Photo by Brian Hartigan.

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