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I dunno if tanks were deployed in enough numbers and used in a way that meets your criteria, but the exploits of "Musical Box" (Whippet 344) are worth a look. Accounts say this one intrepid crew of three killed "hundreds" of Germans.

A Whippet.... three guys, four .303 machine guns, two double-decker bus engines, 8 mph wide open.



http://ezinearticles.com/?World-War-One:-The-Legend-of-Musical-Box&id=5902201

The crew of Whippet number 344 under the command of Lt. C. B. Arnold performed the greatest mechanical cavalry charge of the war. Moving off at zero hour on the 8th August with the rest of the troops across that sector, they passed the railway at Villiers-Bretonneux and somehow became detached from the main force. Arnold became aware of a force of Mark V tanks and Australian Infantry under fire from German artillery. Arnold attacked without hesitation, first passing in front of the German guns and then to the rear peppering the gun positions with machine gun fire. The timely attack by Arnold allowed the Australian infantry to move forward. For the next 9 hours Arnold and his crew attacked German rear positions, infantry, and wagons. They dispersed a whole battalion of infantry in a camp between Bayonvillers and Harbonnieres, destroyed an observation balloon and a transport column of the German 225.Division.

Following unremitting attack upon the Germans, the conditions inside Arnold's Whippet became so difficult that the crew used the mouthpieces of their gasmasks for breathing. The destruction of 'Musical Box' came when the Germans cornered Arnold's tank and set it ablaze with artillery fire. Baling out of the burning wreck, the driver was shot and Arnold and the remaining crewman were taken prisoner.

Now THAT would be a story....

Birdwatcher