Glengettie

"My tea name is Glengettie, and as for now, I am the second best driver in St. Gloriana."

- Glenngettie introducing herself

Gwyneth "Glengettie" Glenn or Glenn is a tank driver of St. Gloriana Girls College. She drives Rosehip's Crusader Cruiser and Tetrarch Light Tank. She makes an appearance in Melati Girls High School's story The Jasmine and the Rose.

Profile
Glengettie is a second year student of St. Gloriana. She was recently transferred from UK just before the 63rd Nationals. In Sensha-Do, She drives Rosehip's A15 Crusader III. In Tankathlon she droves Rosehip's Tetrarch. She is known as an ace commander of a Cromwell during her life in UK. In her childhood, she drove and a Light Tank Mk. VI. She is known as Butcher Glenn, thanks to her reckless maneuver that disregards safeties.

Appearance
"How do I look, Miss Spy?" "Pretty good actually" "Yes, of course I do. Sorry for asking."

- Glenn and Assam, when Glenn tried her Chindits uniform.

Glengettie is a beautiful girl with above average height, crimson eyes and bistre brown long hair. Like the rest of her schoolmates, she wears her school uniform while at school. Although when in a hot day, she wears her school uniform with the pullover tied on her hip and loosened tie, often irritating the more refined of her schoolmates.

In Sensha-Do and Tankathlon matches, she wears her school Sensha-Do uniform accompanied by her iconic WW1 British Officer Boots, thus earning her initial nickname "Boots-chan" by the fans. In Tankathlon match as part of team Chindits, she wears her Chindits uniform with long trousers instead of skirt. When joining Bonple Tankathlon Team, she wears Bonple Sensha-Do uniform just like Orange Pekoe and Rosehip.

Personality
Glenn carries herself with an air of confidence and cheerfulness. She always fears no consequences and expects positive outcome in whatever she does, disregarding her teammates' safety and whatever obstacles in her way. When she fails to achieve her objectives, Glenn usually displays remarkable temper control, often viewing such happenings with curiosity, mild annoyance, smile and laughter rather than frustration. And, when she does get frustrated she would either blame it to someone else or praise the one who responsible or even both. It takes a great personal attack (like addressing her old life) or attack on someone she cares about to actually anger Glenn and when this happens, she immediately (and sadistically) unleashes her fury on the one responsible, even goes so far as threatening them.

Glenn tends to be brutally honest with every person she comes across and enjoys acting inelegantly in any situation, regardless of the circumstances. Her schoolmates, typically perceive her as sarcastic, boorish, insensitive inelegant, arrogant, and incredibly irritating.

Background
"Yes, everything went awry once I stopped being a driver."

- Glenngettie reflecting her past

Glengettie was born in September 15th as Gwyneth Glenn to a family of successful farmer outside Cardiff. Her love for tanks began when she was six years old, her father restored a disarmed Light Tank Mk. VI that he then used as a tractor. The then-cheerful girl loved that tractor so much that she helped her father every time he worked on the tank. In a few months, she became an expert of the tank-turned-tractor. She could drive the tank as if it was bicycle and able to maintain it on her own. Her father then bought a real tractor and decided to give the tank to her.

When she was 12 years old, she competed her modified tank in Junior Isle of Man Tank Tourist Trophy, a tank racing between 11-16 years old children in Isle of Man. To everyone's surprise, she won the 2nd position, defeating even more experienced racer. Her winning the Junior Isle of Man TTT attracted Oxford University, which offered a scholarship in their middle school division. Eventually, she enrolled in Oxford University Middle School and joined the Tankery club as a driver

Her third year in the middle school saw her and her school winning national Tankery middle school tournament with her as a commander of a Cromwell. In the final match of that tournament, as acting overall commander, sacrificed all of her team's tanks, including flag tank, to win the final match. Her controversial and inelegant exploits in that match gave her the nickname Butcher Glenn and made her hateful being in a commander due to hate that she received during that battle. Shortly after she graduated middle school, to make a fresh start from her depressed life in Britain, she moved to Japan.

She moved to St. Gloriana as first year student just before 63rd National High School Championship and joined the Senshado club. Darjeeling gave her tea name, Glengettie for her Welsh origin. Darjeeling, per Glenn's plead, appointed her as a driver of Rosehip's crusader rather than commanding her own tank like she did in UK.

1st and 2nd Round - Against BC and Yogurt
Glengettie didn't participate in the matches. Instead, she and the rest of Rosehip's Crusader Platoon was ordered to watch and learn. First-time seeing Darjeeling in action, she was impressed by Darjeling's bold behavior, strong judgmental sense and elegance.

3rd Round - Against Kuromorimine
The semifinals match of the championship was Glengettie's first match in the championship. When Darjeeling sent Assam to spy on their ranks, she criticized the decision to send a lightly camouflaged blonde girl with bright red outfit as a scout, much to Assam's irritation.

During the flanking operation, she and many other tanks is tasked to pin down KMM's Panthers and King Tigers. She performed surprisingly well during this operation, using Rosehip's Crusader's reckless speed and agility, she managed to destroy two Panthers. However, just like every other tanks in the operation, she was shot down. Glengettie's tank was particularly shot by Inge Aizawa's Panther

Oarai's Commemorative Cup
"Bravo, Miss Jasmine, Bravo."

- Glenngettie, defeated by Dini Nishijima

During the first match against Saunders, her Crusader was taken out by Nora's Sherman Firefly.

However, Glenn managed to make a mark in the consolation match against Melati Girls High School. In the urban phase of the match inside the wall of the medieval city, she Rosehip and "Miss Gunner" was assigned to outflank Dini Nishijima's Sherman. Her Crusader managed to do that and caught Dini off-guard. The Crusader would have took the Sherman out right there and there, if not for the Sherman's upgraded armor keep deflecting Miss Gunner's shots. Rosehip finally decided to do a high-speed drift to its rear, much like what Miho Nishizumi's Panzer IV did to Maho Nishizumi's Tiger a few weeks prior. However, Dini saw what the Crusader was going for and blocked the path with her Sherman, causing the Crusader to collide with the Sherman at high-speed. After the two tanks stopped in a side-by-side parallel positions, Glenn was about to move the Crusader out of the awkward position. but the tank didn't move. Apparently, the Crusader's tracks were snapped and scattered in her attempt to drift. After the Sherman shot down the paralyzed cruiser tank, she got out of her hatch and paid her respect to the Sherman Commander.

During the journey home after the Cup, Glenn melancholically reflected that Dini's backstory is the same as hers. To which, Rosehip innocently comforted her. Rosehip and Glenngettie became a good friend afterwards.

Oarai's Friendly Exhibition
"Oh dear, did we just destroyed our own tank twice in a row?"

- Glen, referring to one of the Crusaders shot down by a friendly fire and Klara's T-34.

In the exhibition match between Oarai/Chi-Ha-Tan vs. St. Gloriana/Pravda, she drives Rosehip's Crusader, as per usual. The Crusader first served as a back-up to Darjeeling's main force. Later, inside the town battle zone, she made use of the Crusader's speed well, albeit losing control of her tank once and hitting Klara's tank in the process. The Crusader survived. Near the end of the match, she had a bright idea to performs a dynamic entry by jumping off a small elevation to rendezvous with the main force. She was in process to do that when the Crusader was inadvertently hit in mid-air by a terribly aimed shot by Momo, who was actually aiming at the enemy flag tank, the Churchill. At the gathering after the match, she can be seen in the Onsen with Rosehip and the rest of the match participants

Battle for Oarai
"Bloody hell, look at the size of that Barrel."

- Glenn, in awe of UST's T28 Super Heavy.

In the match, Rosehip's Crusader, alongside Rukuriri's Matilda and Darjeeling's Churchill, is initially attached to Dandelion Company, under command of Miho Nishizumi herself. Glenn's skill and recklessness in driving a tank can be seen by the Crusader's crazy movement in this match, challenging danger, moving forward and backwards erratically, and closely avoided lethal shells and explosions a number of times. Rosehip and Glengettie actually fought the match while arguing what reckless maneuver they should take.

In the closing stages of the match, Rosehip and Glengettie finally agreed at the same time for once. Glenn removed the speed governor on the Crusader, breaking the tank's operational speed limit. The Crusader then fought a high-speed duel with the All-Stars University Team's last remaining Chaffee. Caught in a high-speed trance, Glengettie jumped the tank across the river to let the gunner fire into the Chaffee from mid-air point blank range. Unfortunately, such an extreme maneuver also resulted in the tank hitting the wall at breakneck speed, immobilizing it. When Glenn got out of her tank, worried (and a tad angry) Rosehip asked if she was fine, she laughed and asked Rosehip to do that again next time, much to Rosehip's irritation. Of all the crewmen of the Crusader, she was injured the most, with a broken nose. she was immediately taken to the paramedics after the match ended.

Back in the school ship, Glengettie reluctantly apologized to Rosehip and Darjeeling for endangering the crews. Darjeeling and Rosehip forgave her new teammate, because no one was really got hurt. Although Rosehip still salty towards that event.

Joining The Chindits
"We are The Chindits, for Darjeeling's sake. If we don't get dirty in a jungle filled with Malaria and Dysentery every now and then, they'll forget who we are."

- Glenn's satirical pep-talk

After she recovered from her injury, she immediately tried Tankathlon which she heard so much about from Rosehip. She joined the Chindits, St. Gloriana's own Tankathlon Team, once again as Rosehip's driver.

During the practice match within school to prepare for Cauldron competition, she and Rosehip managed to outflank St. Gloriana by cutting through the thick jungle and shot down all of st. Gloriana's tanks from the rear in a short time.

First Round - Vs Bonple
"I guess we are reverse-Polish 1st Division, now. Not bad."

- Glenn remarking the Chindits' joining Bonple

She participated in Chindits pinning down Bonple. When the table turned on Chindits, Glengettie and Rosehip tried to shoot down Jajka's tank but soon got annihilated by Pierogi. Even though trying to be low profile by wearing her hat as low as possible, Jajka noticed who Glengettie actually was, and learned that the rumor of Gloriana having one Butcher Glenn was true. When Jajka asked why she wasn't commanding, she cockily answered that if she were the commander, the match would end much quicker. She also threatened Jajka to be quiet about her identity.

After losing the first round, she and the rest of the Chindits is forced to join Bonple as part of the rule.

2nd Round
During the attritional 24-hour match of the Second round, Glengettie performed well as part of Bonple and the Red Team. She eventually made her mark during the battle between team Oni and Anti-Oni alliance. After consulting it with her tank commander, Rosehip, she drifted the tank behind a Type 94, exploiting its lack of visibility, and rammed it with full speed to let Rosehip shot it from pointblank range just before being shot down themselves by the other Type 94. She passed out in exhaustion afterwards.

Trivia

 * She was born in September 15th, the same date, in 1916,  as the first ever deployment of a tank in battlefield.
 * Her nickname when she was in UK, Butcher Glenn, is a reference to a WWI General Douglas Haig who has similar nickname, Butcher Haig.
 * She has a habit of calling her peers with a suffix "Miss," followed by her role, nickname, or, rarely, name. For instance:
 * She refers to Rosehip as Miss Commander, because Rosehip is her tank commander.
 * She refers to Darjeeling as Miss Black Tea, because Darjeeling loves to drink black tea.
 * She refers to Orange Pekoe as Miss Orange, because of her tea name.
 * Like her teammates whose tea names are referring tea, she is named after a blend (and brand) of tea aimed at Welsh consumers, Glengettie.
 * Her favorite tank is A34 Comet
 * Her favorite flower is Red Rose