A Matilda tank of the 2/4th Armoured Regiment on the Buin road, Bougainville, 1945.
Matildas were long considered obsolete by European standards, and all tanks were restricted by jungle terrain; nonetheless, with their heavy armor and useful 2-pdr. gun (or a flame-thrower, in the Mk IV ‘Frog’ modification), various versions made telling contributions to the ‘bunker-busting’ in Borneo, New Guinea and Bougainville.