OK, the votes are in and....
Mentioned in Dispatches are:
DirtyProp with "Stealth tank my a@@!
I cross one river and the damn thing shrinks on me!"
WeeJem with "Psssst - eet eez I, LeClerc!!!"
MPN11 with "Soon after the photo was taken, Lt Smithers got stuck in some tram tracks and was last seen heading for Verdun."
but the winner and current holder of the Coffman Starter Trophy is...
WeeJeem with:
"Righty-ho - time for the wirecutters.
Wirecutters, wirecutters, wirecutters...
_...
Oh, bollox."