Ammunition Gallery

An ammunition column passing through Ypres, 1917

An ammunition column passing through Ypres, 1917. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holiday'S Early Life Was Spent In St. John'S Wood And From His Window He Was Able To Watch The Royal Horse Artillery, Which Was His First Contact With Horses. He Was Educated At Westminster And Then Studied At The R.A. Schools. He Worked As An Illustrator At The Graphic, The Tatler And The Illustrated London News. Holiday Served As A Gunner In The Royal Field Artillery On The Western Front During The First World War And He Painted Many Pictures For Army Messes

© David Cohen Fine Art/Mary Evans Picture Library

Brave Women Who Wait by F G Kimberley

Flyer headed Brave Women - Who Wait, or The Munitions Girls Love Story by Mrs F. G. Kimberley. First produced Wolverhampton on 29th November 1915 and Elephant and Castle 21st January 1916. The scene shows a busy munitions factory with female workers being visited by a well dressed lady asking What Are You Making? Why, Shells to Help Kill Them As Killed Our Loved Ones Yonder, is the reply. Touring to Grand Theatre, Luton on 11th September 1916. Date: 1915

© The Michael Diamond Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

Indian soldiers using a Bren gun

Photograph of Indian soldiers using a Bren gun. A gas-operated weapon, the Bren used the same . 303 ammunition as the standard British rifle, the Lee-Enfield, firing at a rate of between 480 and 540 rounds per minute (rpm), depending on the model. It was the standard light machine gun of Commonwealth armies during World War Two. The Indian Army used it widely, although the Vickers-Berthier was later adopted as well. Part of a collection of official photographs from Middle and Far East, World War Two. Collected by Maj Gen (later Lt Gen) Sir Frank Walter Messervy. Date: 1945

© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library