TV PRESENTER Dan Snow has introduced the Tank Museum’s new World War One app to a group of schoolchildren.

The history buff Dan visited the museum at Bovington, Purbeck, and talked to history pupils from a local school.

Dan said: “It has been fantastic to talk to such enthusiastic students studying this important period in world history.

“The museum’s new Timeline WWI Tanks app is a fascinating source for the First World War.

“It allows anyone with an interest in the Great War to hear direct from the museum’s experts historians about the horrors of World War One, and to find out about the role the tank played in helping the allies to break out of the trenches and win the war.”

The multimedia app, presented by Dan Snow, features the museum’s collection of First World War tanks, interviews with tank experts, archive film of tanks in action and images from the earliest designs to the machines that saw action on the battlefields of 1918.

A spokesman said: “One hundred years ago this autumn British planners began drawing up designs for what was to become the first tank – within two years it was on the battlefield.

“The Tank Museum, Bovington, and Ballista, a multi-media platform production company, have launched a comprehensive new multi-media app Timeline WWI Tanks.

“It joins the award-winning Timeline World War II and Timeline WWI. Following on from the success of these apps, Timeline WWI Tanks revolutionises the way the development of these incredible machines can be viewed and understood.”