Wide treads moved its massive bulk up the slope to a site marked by one of Lily's small marker flags.
Often larger floats have marker flags for easier spotting.
Each man digs six feet of ditch, starting with the war hero at the first marker flag.
The Markers then march off the grounds carrying the regimental company colours on the marker flags.
In contests it has to be flown over four marker flags which makes it even more difficult.
Yellow marker flags stuck out of the holes where the tent pegs had been.
Coloured marker flags were carried, to be shown from the captured trenches to indicate success.
Then they scrambled up on to the footplate and started them along the line of marker flags.
Nefer forced the pace, and the marker flags sped by in quick, regular succession.
After being measured and marked, each turtle is promptly returned to its own turf, where a marker flag is left.