Artillery Collection (#28)

Allied Troops - The Armenian Church at Chanakale
Allied troops in front of the Armenian Church at Chanakale, Turkey. The Church is now an ethnological Museum and an Arts Studio for students. Date: circa 1920s

Captured weapons in Villers-Cotterets, France, WW1
Allied soldiers looking at piles of captured German weapons in the main square of Villers-Cotterets, northern France, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 27 July 1918

British gunners on Balkan Front, WW1
British gunners on the Balkan Front during the First World War, preparing a mountain gun for action. Date: 1914-1918

Working a gun on submarine parent ship, WW1
Men of the British Royal Navy working a gun on a submarine parent ship during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Turkish field artillery in action, WW1
Turkish field artillery in action during the First World War. Men of the Red Crescent (left) are carrying a wounded man on a stretcher. Date: 1914-1918

Russian machine gunners in Galicia, WW1
Russian machine gunners marching through a captured town in Galicia on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: 1915

American artillery in Fleville, France, WW1
Incoming and outgoing American artillery in Fleville, Argonne, north eastern France, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 5 November 1918

Fortified position, Siege of Przemsyl, Galicia, WW1
A fortified position during the Siege of Przemsyl in Galicia (now in Poland) on the eastern front during the First World War. The opposing forces were Russian and Austro-Hungarian. Date: 1914-1915

German gunners transporting 77mm field guns, WW1
German gunners transporting 77mm field guns along a road on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Attacking the Commune
Forces of the Versailles government attack the Commune : artillery at Fort Valerien firing at the city. Date: April 1871

Bomb damage to a house next to Reims Cathedral
A photograph of a family, along with their pet dogs, as they survey the damage caused by a heavy German artillery shell which has blown out the walls of their house

Captured Ottoman Turkish Guns - Iraq, WWI
Captured Ottoman Turkish Guns - Basra, Iraq, WWI Date: circa 1917

First Balkan War - result of Montenegrin bombardment
The First Balkan War 1912-13 - Effects on the Turkish Ottoman positions at Sutari following bombardment by Montenegrin artillery of the Balkan League

Reunion of the heroes of the Battle of Grahovac
The surviving Montenegrin heroes of the Battle of Grahovac of 28th April to 1st May 1858 meet at Cetinje, Montenegro. At Grahovac, Grand Duke Mirko Petrovic-Njegos, led a strong army of 7

St. Lucia Cannon
A cannon on the lawn of Government House, overlooking Castries, St. Lucia, West Indies. Date: 1960s

1830 Revolution Belgium
REBELLION : an artillery company mass with their weaponry at the St Josse Ten Noode Cemetery, Faubourg, Brussells during the struggle for Belgian independence. Date: 23 - 26 September 1830

Old French Cannons
Two of the oldest and most interesting cannons in a collection in Paris, France, the upper of them called The Snake, covered with sculptures of men and women embracing. Date: 16th century

American troops at St Mihiel, France, WW1
First US Army troops with a munitions convoy at St Mihiel, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: circa 1918

American gunners near Chery Chartreuve, France, WW1
American gunners preparing a 155 mm gun for action near Chery Chartreuve, northern France, on the western front during the First World War. Date: August 1918

Austrian gunners operating 12cm trench mortar, WW1
Austro-Hungarian gunners operating a 12cm trench mortar (in firing position) during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

German machine gun, Grandpre, France, WW1
The German machine gun that held US troops at Grandpre, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: 6 November 1918

Balfour visiting Howitzer 1916
Arthur Balfour (central figure in flat cap), as Foreign Secretary in David Lloyd Georges wartime coalition government, viewing a 9.2-inch Howitzer during his visit to the front (location unknown)

General Sir Arthur Currie with captured German guns
General Sir Arthur William Currie (1875-1933), Canadian general, looking at captured German naval guns at Amiens, France, during the Hundred Days Offensive, First World War. Date: 21 August 1918

General Sir Noel Birch
General Sir James Frederick Noel Birch (1865 1939), British Cavalry Officer during the Second Boer War and World War One. Promoted Lieutenant-General in 1919 when he was made a Colonel Commandant of

Serbian gunners in action, plain of Kosovo, WW1
Serbian gunners in action on the plain of Kosovo during the First World War. Two men on the left are covering their ears against the noise. Date: 1915

HMS Indomitable and Inflexible, Battle of Jutland, WW1
British Invincible-class battlecruisers, HMS Indomitable and HMS Inflexible, taking part in the Battle of Jutland during the First World War. Date: 1 June 1916

Belgian gunners during evacuation of Antwerp, WW1
Belgian gunners during the evacuation of Antwerp, First World War. Date: circa 1914

Belgian troops with dogs, Belgium, WW1
Belgian troops with dogs pulling artillery carts, Belgium, leaving for the front line towards the start of the First World War. Date: 25 October 1914

Serbian heavy batteries in action against Austrians, WW1
Serbian heavy batteries in action against the Austrians during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1917

Austrian gunners operating mortar, WW1
Austro-Hungarian gunners operating a mortar during the First World War. Date: 1917

Russian 10cm rapid fire cannon, WW1
A Russian 10cm rapid fire cannon, used during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

German 10cm Kanone field gun, WW1
A German 10cm Kanone Model 14 field gun, designed and manufactured by Krupp, in service during the First World War. Date: 1915-1918

German 25cm heavy trench mortar in firing position, WW1
A German 25cm muzzle-loading heavy trench mortar, in service before and during the First World War. Seen here in firing position. Date: 1914-1918

British monitor HMS Severn, WW1
British monitor (small warship) HMS Severn during the First World War, with her 6-inch guns visible. Date: circa 1915

Gunners with 60-pound gun, Salonika Front, WW1
Gunners in action with a 60-pound gun on the Salonika Front during the First World War. The guns recoil was 56 inches. circa 1916-1917

Austrian soldiers with rifle grenades, WW1
Austro-Hungarian soldiers in a trench, preparing to fire rifle grenades during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

German gunners in action, Western Front, WW1
German gunners in action with field artillery on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

American artillery at Chatel Chehery, France, WW1
American artillery (a 155 mm gun) in action at Chatel Chehery, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: 3 October 1918

Railway gun in action, Argonne, France, WW1
A 14 inch railway gun in action, manned by American coast artillery men in Argonne, north eastern France, towards the end of the First World War. Date: October 1918

Ship firing towards the coast, Middle East, WW1
A ship firing towards the coast, probably somewhere in the Middle East during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Men of the RFC loading Lewis guns, WW1
Men of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) loading Lewis guns during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Artillery in action, Russian Front, WW1
Artillery in action on the Russian Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Boys in training on battery work, Shotley Barracks, WW1
Boys in training on six inch battery work at Shotley Barracks during the First World War. They are naval cadets attached to HMS Ganges, a Royal Navy training ship. Date: 1914-1918

Australian gunners in Battle of Arras, France, WW1
Australian gunners of No. 4 Section, 22nd Machine Gun Company, in action against a German aeroplane in the Noreuil Valley, near Bullecourt (2nd Battle of the Scarpe) during the Battle of Arras

Fractured barrel of German Paris Gun, WW1
The fractured barrel of the German Paris Gun (also known as the Emperor William Gun), a long-range seige gun designed and manufactured by Krupp, used towards the end of the First World War

Soldier guarding captured guns, Montmedy, France
A soldier (probably American) guarding captured German guns at Montmedy in north eastern France just after the end of the First World War. Date: 17 December 1918

Howitzer towed by lorry near Merris, France, WW1
A British 6 inch howitzer being towed across a railway line by a lorry near Merris, northern France, at the time of the Battle of Hazebrouck (during the Battle of the Lys), First World War

Belgian artillery leaving Tirlemont, Belgium, WW1
Belgian artillery leaving Tirlemont in the direction of Louvain (Leuven), Belgium, at the start of the First World War. Date: August 1914

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