Pounder Collection (page 2)

A composite matchbox-ashtray made from a bullet cartridge and mounted on an 18 pounder shell case. Engraved Messines, June 7th 1917 - France and Belgium with an image in copper of a British tank

Tobacco jar made from the base section of a brass shell
A tobacco jar made from the base section of a 1915 18 pounder brass shell containing a Coldstream Guards pattern rank garter star. Trench Art

British gunners setting up 60-pounder, Western Front, WW1
British gunners setting up a 60-pounder on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Britains bomb progress by G. H. Davis
Britains bomb progress during the Second World War: from 500-pounder to a 12, 000-pound factory buster. Date: 1944

One-pounder quick-firing gun on top of the envelope

Siege of Sevastopol from the New 32 pounder battery above the left attack Picquet House. Interior view of the British 32 pounder battery before Sevastopol showing soldiers firing cannons

A man fishing in a river
An Anxious Moment. A three pounder sure. Date: ca. 1880

British gunners with 18-pounder, Macedonian Front, WW1
British gunners in action with an 18-pounder gun on the Macedonian Front, near the Struma River, during the First World War. Date: November 1916

Elater (Click Beetle) and Elops Saurus

Battle of Pozieres, northern France, WW1
Scene at the Battle of Pozieres, northern France, during the First World War. Gunners firing an 18 pounder for curtain fire or barrage, in Carnoy Valley, near Montauban. Date: 30 July 1916

Gun-carrying British tank, WW1
A gun-carrying British tank, used during the First World War. Showing the method of carrying the wheels of a 60-pounder gun at the sides, outside the body of the machine

Heavy artillery in action on cliff, Helles, Gallipoli, WW1
Heavy artillery (a 60-pound battery) in action on top of a cliff at Helles, Gallipoli, during the First World War. Up until July 1915 there were only eight of these guns in action at Helles

Battery of 60 pounders in action, Contalmaison, France, WW1
A battery of 60 pounders in action at Contalmaison, northern France, during the Battle of Albert, First World War. Date: July 1916

British Pom Pom anti-aircraft gun, WW1
A British one pounder Pom Pom anti-aircraft gun, mounted on a field gun carriage. It was used by the 6th Siege Battery RGA (Royal Garrison Artillery) during the First World War

British 60 pounder gun in action, Samarra, WW1
A British 60 pounder gun in action at Samarra, Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during the First World War. 1918

Ammunition / Woolwich / 1862
Casting shot and shell for 100-pounder Armstrong guns at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London Date: 1862

Armstrong Gun-Maker / 1862
The finishing touches are applied by lathe to a 100 pounder Armstrong gun at the Woolwich Arsenal, London Date: 1862

British artillery WWI
Two British 60 pounder guns in position at Gallipoli during World War I

First Battle of Bapaume 1918
A 60 pounder Mark II Battery in action in the open air near La Boisselle during the First Battle of Bapaume on the Western Front in France during World War I in March 1918

Moulain 1918
British 18 pounder gun batteries in action at Moulain on the Western Front in France during World War I in October 1918

Battle of the Canal du Nord 1918
A British 60 pounder gun firing in the barrage at dawn (zero was at 5.20am). Field batteries are moving forward on the right

Battle of Arras 1917
Battery of 60 pounders firing in the open at Feuchy Chapel, which is 3.75 miles from Arras and was the limit of the first days advance on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

60 pounder 1915
A 60 pounder gun of the 6th Division Artillery covering the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 19th Brigade, 6th and 27th Divisions in the Bois Grenier Sector on the Western Front in France

British troops in France 1915
Soldiers getting ready to fire a 60 pounder gun in the Bois Grenier sector on the Western Front in France during World War I on 12th January 1915

Battle of Hazebrouck 1918
18 pounder battery in action in the open near Meteren. Soldiers loading the gun at the Battle of Hazebrouck on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I on 13th April 1918

Battle of Poelcappelle
Man-handling an 18 pounder gun out of the mud. The horse team that pulls it is standing nearby. Near Langemarck on the Western Front in Belgium on 16th October 1917

British 17-Pounder Anti-Tank Gun; Second World War, 1944
Illustration showing two views of the British 17-pounder anti-tank gun; one side view and a view showing two guns in action against German Tanks

British 6-Pounder Anti-Tank Gun; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a British 6-pounder anti-tank gun, on a British army parade ground, 1944. This type of weapon was used extensively by the British Army

Crimea Artillery
A quiet day in the Diamond Battery : the gun is a Lancaster 68-pounder

Armstrong Big Will Gun
Sir William Armstrongs 600- pounder shunt-gun Big Will tested at Shoeburyness against the Warrior floating target in the Thames

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