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Siege of Duras 1377The French lay siege to the town of Duras, storming the walls with scaling-ladders while artillerymen bombard the walls with mortars, bowmen with crossbows
Mortar Calculations - Fort Wright - Fishers Island, New YorkDirecting the range of the Mortars - Fort Wright - Fishers Island - New York, USA. Military Cadets using complex higher mathematical formulae and telephone instructions to work out the exact aiming
9. 15 cm leichtes Minenwerfer System Lanz trench mortarsA pair of captured German 9.15 cm leichtes Minenwerfer System Lanz trench mortars. Date: circa 1917-1918
Sir WIlfred StokesSir Wilfred Stokes (1860-1927) - Between 1915 and 1918 Stokes worked for the inventions branch of the Ministry of Munitions
Welsh GuardsOne of 34 photographs associated with the Welsh Guards, 1950-1969.Showing canteen; sign-writer; carpenters; drivers; machine gunners; firing mortars; sport; welder; mess waiters
Supply dump of trench mortar ammunition, France, WW1Men of the RAOC (Royal Army Ordnance Corps) on a supply dump of trench mortar ammunition (nicknamed toffee apples), at Acheux, northern France, during the First World War. Date: July 1916
Four British Stokes Mortars, used during WW1Four British Stokes Mortars, used during the First World War. From left to right, they measure 3, 4, 3 and 6 inches respectively
Firing mortars over pagodas at Meiktila, BurmaFiring mortar shells over the historic pagodas at Meiktila, Burma - 28th February 1945
Preparing trench mortars, East Africa, WW1Preparing trench mortars for a push into Portuguese East Africa during WW1. 1917
Suggestion for Utilising Enemy Trench Mortars, WW1Suggestion for Utilising Enemy Trench Mortars Captured in France drawn by William Heath Robinson in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
WW1 - Manufacture of Aerial Torpedoes - France Date: 1916
French trench artillery in action by Matania, WW1French gunners firing mortars and trench guns across " No Mans Land" to the German positions. The French used special artillery for use in the trenches
Trench mortars captured from the Germans, 1914Trench mortars captured from the Germans seen here at Ramscapelle behind the Yser line. They throw a murderous shell at very close range. Date: 1914
A Really Welcome Economy by Bruce BairnsfatherA Really Welcome Economy " One shell-less day a week wouldn t be a bad idea, would it Bert?" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Date: 1917
Its the Little Things that worry by Bruce BairnsfatherIts the Little Things that Worry What is so particularly annoying to Private Lovebird is, that he would not have had this bother with his dug-out if his leave had not been postponed A cartoon by
The Reconnoitring Mortar by Heath RobinsonThis Heath Robinson cartoon show a new German innovation; soldiers with binoculars being launched into the sky. Several little nuances give it away as a Heath Robinson immediately, the mad premise
A. D. 19 (?) by B BairnsfatherA cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather, suggesting that the war is likely to last far longer that the optimists were suggesting at the time. Date: 1915
A Matter of Moment by BairnsfatherA Matter of Moment " What was that, Bill?" " Trench mortar" " Ours or theirs?" A cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, featuring his popular characters
S. O. S. by BairnsfatherS.O.S. The Hard Lines of Communication A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, in which two soldiers under heavy bombardment talk over the trench communication line
Two bronze mortars used during the First Carlist War. SPAIN. Vitoria. Museum of the Armeric (armoury)
Yorktown, Va. vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Battery No. 4 with officers of 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery
Yorktown, Virginia. Battery No. 4 mounting 13-inch mortars. South end. Date 1862 May
Transportation of German heavy mortarsThe transportation by steam engine of a German German self-propelled siege howitzer mortars (" Mr" ) - WWI. Pictured crossing through a manned checkpoint on the way to the front. Date: 1915
Trench Mortars in the Great AdvanceA British 6 inch trench mortar bombarding a strong point in the enemys line during the new British advance over the old Somme battlefields in 1918
German mortar WWIGerman mortar position in France on the Western Front during World War I
French artillery parade WWIFrench artillery with 75mm mortars drawn up in a line during World War I
Captured Russian bombs WWIICaptured Russian bombs for use in trench mortars, some of the heavier types are equipped with a revolving fan. Finland during World War II
Soldiers with mortar 1917Soldiers of the York and Lancaster regiment in the trenches with a mortar on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1917
Destroying barbed wire 1916The destruction of barbed wire, smashed by exploding Trench Mortars
Mortar pile 1916Members of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps take time out from fusing the Stokes Trench Mortars on which they are sitting to play cards, using a copy of the Daily Mail as a playing surface Date: 1916
British soldiers carrying trench-mortar ammunitionBritish soldiers, laden with ammunition for their trench-mortars, walking to the front lines in 1916
Crimea Mortar BatteryBritish mortar battery on the heights before Sebastopol, during the Crimea War
Sledge-Mounted MortarA sledge-mounted mortar used by Scandinavians
Firing French MortarFrench artillerymen firing a mortar
French 220 MortarA French 220 mortar requires 6 kilos of powder to discharge a projectile weighing 98 kilos
Freikorps Set up MortarsThe Freikorps set up mortars in Berlins Alexanderplatz. These right wing units were used in 1919 to suppress the Communist Spartacist uprisings
Mortar Battery, CrimeaDuring the siege of Sebastopol, a mortar battery bombards the besieged city Date: 1855