David John Fletcher (born 1942) is an English author and military historian specialising in the
history of armoured warfare, particularly that of the United Kingdom.
He was an employee of
The Tank Museum
The Tank Museum (previously the Bovington Tank Museum) is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles at Bovington Camp in Dorset, South West England. It is about north of the village of Wool and west of the major port of Poole. The collectio ...
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Bovington from 1982 until December 2012, becoming the museum's longest serving member of staff.
Earlier that year, he was a panellist on Operation Think Tank, an international symposium on tanks, held in California. He also presents contemporary media such as YouTube for the Tank Museum.
Until 2023, David Fletcher hosted a regular video series on The Tank Museum's YouTube channel called 'Tank Chats', in which he gave viewers a brief insight in to a specific tank in the Museum's collection.
In his final year at Bovington, he was appointed an
MBE in the Queens
New Year's honours list for services to the history of armoured warfare.
Bibliography
His publication list is extensive, including 30 books.
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British military historians
Historians of the United Kingdom
Historians of armoured warfare
Living people
Historians of World War I
British historians of World War II
Members of the Order of the British Empire
1942 births
Historians of weapons