Mortars Collection

Siege of Duras 1377
The 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 York
Directing 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 mortars
A pair of captured German 9.15 cm leichtes Minenwerfer System Lanz trench mortars. Date: circa 1917-1918

Sir WIlfred Stokes
Sir Wilfred Stokes (1860-1927) - Between 1915 and 1918 Stokes worked for the inventions branch of the Ministry of Munitions

Welsh Guards
One 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, WW1
Men 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

Firing mortars over pagodas at Meiktila, Burma
Firing mortar shells over the historic pagodas at Meiktila, Burma - 28th February 1945

Preparing trench mortars, East Africa, WW1
Preparing trench mortars for a push into Portuguese East Africa during WW1. 1917

Suggestion for Utilising Enemy Trench Mortars, WW1
Suggestion 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, WW1
French 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, 1914
Trench 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 Bairnsfather
A 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 Bairnsfather
Its 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 Robinson
This 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 Bairnsfather
A 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 Bairnsfather
A 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 Bairnsfather
S.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

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

Transportation of German heavy mortars
The 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 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

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

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

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

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

Destroying barbed wire 1916
The destruction of barbed wire, smashed by exploding Trench Mortars

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

British soldiers carrying trench-mortar ammunition
British soldiers, laden with ammunition for their trench-mortars, walking to the front lines in 1916

Crimea Mortar Battery
British mortar battery on the heights before Sebastopol, during the Crimea War

Sledge-Mounted Mortar
A sledge-mounted mortar used by Scandinavians

Firing French Mortar
French artillerymen firing a mortar

French 220 Mortar
A French 220 mortar requires 6 kilos of powder to discharge a projectile weighing 98 kilos

Freikorps Set up Mortars
The Freikorps set up mortars in Berlins Alexanderplatz. These right wing units were used in 1919 to suppress the Communist Spartacist uprisings

Mortar Battery, Crimea
During the siege of Sebastopol, a mortar battery bombards the besieged city Date: 1855

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