Editing Matilda II (section)

==Surviving tanks==
[[File:Puckapunyal-Matilda-Hedgehog-1.jpg|thumb|The Matilda Hedgehog at the RAAC Museum, Puckapunyal, Australia (2007)]]

Around 70 Matilda IIs survive in various degrees of preservation. Around 30 are in Australia, with the [[The Army Museum Bandiana|Bandiana Museum]] and the [[Australian Armour and Artillery Museum|Australian armour and artillery museum]] having one each, others displayed as public monuments or in private ownership, and a notable collection at  the [[Royal Australian Armoured Corps Memorial and Army Tank Museum]], at [[Puckapunyal]], Australia; it has five Matilda IIs on display, including a Matilda Frog flame tank, a Matilda Hedgehog and a Matilda Bulldozer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.armytankmuseum.com.au/i-vd.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021017193947/http://www.armytankmuseum.com.au/i-vd.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 October 2002 |title=Vehicle Displays and Exhibits |publisher=RAAC Memorial and Army Tank Museum |access-date=15 February 2010 }}</ref>

Tanks in running condition are owned by [[The Tank Museum]] Bovington in the United Kingdom, the [[American Heritage Museum]] in the United States, and several private owners in Australia. The Tank Museum completely restored a Matilda II tank from 2015 to 2018, with updates provided through YouTube.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBAEOsdxIbLNSwroRJCF5CHG1W3HHHLz9|title=The Matilda Diaries |publisher=Tank Museum |website=YouTube|access-date=23 March 2018}}</ref> While a gearbox fault prevented it running at the 2018 Tankfest (its first advertised running event since 2013), the issue was corrected and the tank has run at several events since. The Tank Museum at Bovington also displays the only surviving Matilda Canal Defence Light, currently{{when|date=August 2022}} housed in the Vehicle Conservation Centre. The WW2 Tank Stories display has a Matilda in desert Caunter camouflage scheme{{efn|This tank has additional steel bars welded to some track link faces, Russian style, despite not being an ex-Russian tank.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}}} In the UK, the [[Imperial War Museum]] also has a Matilda - listed as a Mk V - with additional turret ring armour on display at their IWM North site. The Royal NSW Lancers Museum in Parramatta in Sydney has a MKII "ACE" fitted with a 3 in. howitzer in place of the 2 pounder.

Other examples are displayed at the [[Kubinka Tank Museum]] in Russia, the [[Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History]] in Belgium, the [[Yad La-Shiryon]] museum in [[Latrun]] Israel, the [[Musée des Blindés]] in France, and the [[Cavalry Tank Museum, Ahmednagar|Cavalry Tank Museum]] at [[Ahmednagar]] in India.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_Matildas.pdf | title=Matilda Infantry tanks (A11 and A12) | publisher=Surviving Panzers | date=2013-01-13 | access-date=2013-05-08}}</ref>
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