Mortar Collection (page 5)

Poster: Waste Paper goes into Action. Paper makes shell containers, cartridge wads, rifle grenade washers, mortar bomb carriers, etc. Put out paper for salvage. circa 1940s

Senegal - Food Preparation
Preparation of butter and the cooking and grinding of nuts in a Senegalese village Date: circa 1910s

Preparation of Palm Oil - Sierra Leone Date: circa 1904

German mortar damage to fort, Liege, Belgium, WW1
Damage to a fort in Liege, Belgium, caused by a 42cm German mortar during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Senegal, West Africa - preparing couscous
A Senegalese woman crushing chickpeas to make couscous using a huge pestle and mortar and a young man from the Ouoloff tribe, Senegal. Date: circa 1903

German gunners with heavy artillery, WW1
German gunners in a camouflaged position with heavy artillery -- a 305mm field gun -- during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

German 21cm long mortar howitzer guns, WW1
German 21cm long mortar howitzer guns, designed by Krupp, in action on the battlefield during the First World War. Date: 1916-1918

German gunners loading 25cm trench mortar, WW1
German gunners loading a 25cm trench mortar at Notre Dame de Lorette (Loretto Heights), near Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Trinity College Bridge
University Entertainment: A college man in mortar board & gown has just passed under the bridge, built by James Essex in 1764-5, in a punt. Date: 1819

Early Christian Chapel
Gallarus Oratory, near Smerwick, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland. This strange building is an early Christian chapel, stone with no mortar, Date: circa 800 A.D

Heswall Windmill
The remains of the old windmill at Heswall, Wirral, Cheshire, England. Date: 1960s

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

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

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 tanks under German fire, WW1
British tanks under attack from German heavy artillery and Minenwerfer (short range mortar) fire towards the end of the First World War. Date: September 1918

German gunners hauling 21cm mortar howitzer, WW1
German gunners hauling a 21cm mortar howitzer gun into a forward position ready for action during the First World War. Date: March 1918

American gun crew near St Mihiel, France, WW1
An American gun crew from Regimental Headquarters Company, 23rd Infantry, firing a 37 mm gun during an advance against German entrenched positions near St Mihiel, north eastern France

Austrian gunners loading 12cm trench mortar, WW1
Austro-Hungarian gunners loading a 12cm trench mortar during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Young Oxford Student, College Master and Bulldogs
A young Oxford student greets the Master of his College with all due deference (making sure to hide his smoking pipe behind his back)

Gas canister after Battle of Neuve Chapelle, WW1
A German photograph claiming to be of an English gas canister after the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, north western France, during the First World War. Date: 1915

Loading a trench mortar, Western Front, France, WW1
Gunners loading a trench mortar nicknamed a Flying Pig, on the Western Front in France during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Four British Stokes Mortars, used during WW1
Four British Stokes Mortars, used during the First World War. From left to right, they measure 3, 4, 3 and 6 inches respectively

Woolwich hulks - convicts form mortar battery
The Woolwich hulks (prison ships) - convicts forming a mortar battery. Date: 1862

Oxford Uni Student 1950S
An aesthetic-looking male student in the street. Date: 1950s

Oxford Uni Queens 1950S
A male student sits and relaxes outside Queens College. Date: 1950s

French Cannon, 16th Cent
French artillery - two guns and a mortar Date: 16th century

John Lawrence Toole / P&p
JOHN LAWRENCE TOOLE English actor-manager, in the role of The Don Date: 1830 - 1906

Oxford Uni Graduates
A group of male graduates at Oxford. Date: circa 1950

Trench Mortars in the Great Advance
A 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

Two soldiers loading a mortar from a trench during the First World War

Battlefield with mortar rounds and running soldiers
Distant view of a battlefield during the First World War, with mortar rounds exploding and soldiers running

German mortar WWI
German mortar position in France on the Western Front during World War I

German trench mortar WWI
German trench mortar in action, troops can be seen taking cover in shell holes during World War I on the Western Front

French artillery parade WWI
French artillery with 75mm mortars drawn up in a line during World War I

French bombs WWI
French mortar bombs in reserve trench during World War I

French mortar WWI
A French 570mm mortar in action on the Western Front during World War I

Archbishop of Canterbury with Bishops of London & Salisbury
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Randall Thomas Davidson, 1st Baron Davidson of Lambeth (1848-1930) walking behind the Bishop of London, Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram (centre)

Captured Russian bombs WWII
Captured Russian bombs for use in trench mortars, some of the heavier types are equipped with a revolving fan. Finland during World War II

French troops practising using a mortar in Algeria
French troops practising firing a mortar in Algeria

Soldiers with mortar 1917
Soldiers of the York and Lancaster regiment in the trenches with a mortar on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1917

Mortar pile 1916
Members 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

Coin marked James Hallett-Curer of All Diseases
Illustration showing the design for a coin marked " James Hallett-Curer of All Diseases", 1795. HPG/8/6/2"

U. S. 81mm Mortar overlooking the Burma Road
U.S. 81mm Mortar overlooking the Burma Road, Lashio, Burma - January / February, 1945. Japanese supply and communications lines were pounded during the battle for the strategic ground north of this

Father with children, Kashgar, western China
A father with two children outside their home in Kashgar, western China. He appears to be getting them washed from a small bowl of water. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Oh, That Girl
A colour illustration of a curvaceous young lady who has playfully dressed in a cloak and mortar

Two Louis-Phillippe mortar employed in the French trenches

A German trench-mortar, which was introduced to the British
A weapon which throws a 187 lb mine shell

German Self-Propelled Mortar, Second World War, c. 1945
Photograph showing a German soldier standing beside a self-propelled mortar, which weighed about 120 tons, c.1945

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