Shells Collection (page 12)

Close-up of 9. 2 inch Howitzer shells, WW1
A close-up of 9.2 inch Howitzer shells on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1916

British guns on the Western Front, France, WW1
British guns being moved into position on the Western Front in France during the First World War. Shells and containers are stacked up in the foreground, between large puddles of rainwater

British 9. 2 inch Howitzer near Albert, France, WW1
A British 9.2 inch Howitzer in action in an orchard near Albert, northern France, during the First World War, with gunners and shells. Date: July 1916

Canadian heavy Howitzer on the Somme, France, WW1
A Canadian heavy Howitzer in action during the Battle of Courcelette, on the Somme, France, during the First World War. Date: September 1916

British Howitzer in action, Western Front, WW1
A heavy British Howitzer in action on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British and French soldiers, Bas Maisnil, France, WW1
Two British officers (Davidson and Churchill) of the 1st Cameronians (Cameron Highlanders) with two French artillerymen, alongside a 75mm French field gun and ammunition wagon at Bas Maisnil

German troops on a road, Western Front, WW1
German troops on a road somewhere on the Western Front during the First World War. Two dead horses are lying to the left of the road, and gun carriages and ammunition are scattered around

British 8 inch Howitzer in action, Longueval, France, WW1
A British 8 inch Howitzer in action at Longueval, northern France, during the First World War. Date: September 1916

Howitzer in action at Wagonlieu, France, WW1
An 8 inch Howitzer in action at Wagonlieu, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 12 May 1916

Howitzer shells near Ypres, Belgium, WW1
A line of 15 inch Howitzer shells on the muddy ground near Ypres, Belgium, during the First World War. Written on them are painted the initials RMA [Royal Marine Artillery]

British 9. 2 inch Howitzer, WW1
British 9.2 inch Howitzer, designed in 1913 for use during the First World War. It continued in use during the Second World War. Date: 1914-1918

British artillery in action, Western Front, WW1
British artillery in action against the German position in northern France, Western Front, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Heavy artillery, Battle of Menin Road, Ypres, Belgium, WW1
British heavy artillery, nicknamed Granny, with shells ready for firing, at the Battle of Menin Road, Ypres, Belgium, during the First World War. Date: 1917

Italian 149 mm gun in action, Italian Front, WW1
An Italian 149 mm gun in action on the Italian Front during the First World War, with gunners loading shells. Date: 1914-1918

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

British fighter plane, WWI by George Ranstead
A British single seat fighter plane up in the sky during aerial combat (though no other planes seems to be about). Note the exploding shells all around

Aerial photograph of Fort Souville, France, WW1
Aerial photograph (German) of the Fort at Souville, north eastern France, which was attacked by heavy shelling by the Germans during the Battle of Verdun, First World War

Captured Ottoman Turkish Shells, Baghdad Iraq - WWI era. Date: circa 1916

Dance card from the Pimlico Rooms, London (1 / 2)
The front of a Dance Card from the Pimlico Rooms - (now The Windermere Hotel), Pimlico, London. The design features musical instruments and two cherub musicians. Date: 1868

Various Shells (Cones)
Various cones

Shells for Guns Woolwich
700 pound shells for 38 ton guns at Woolwich Arsenal Date: 1879

Various Shells 1835
A selection of chama shells. Date: 1835

Ammunition / Woolwich / 1877
Putting the finishing touches to Palliser shells at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London Date: 1877

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

Sketches in Africa - Burning Shells for Lime
Native farmers on the Mozambique coast, near the mouth of the Zambesi river pictured collecting and burning shells in order to make lime to fertilise the soil they are working

Large field gun at night
A large field gun at night, with soldiers and a large pile of shells

Brazil - Paqueta Island
Paqueta Island - an island in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro. The name of the island is a Tupi word meaning many shells, a reference to the plentiful shells on the islands beaches

Battle of Oppy WWI
German troops advancing in extended order, shells can be seen bursting in the distance while other troops take cover in a shell hole during World War I on the Western Front

German WWI War Loans poster
German war loans poster showing the looming body of a tank against a sky littered with shell explosions

Damascus, Syria - Panorama with bomb damage
Damascus, Syria - Panorama. This picture shows the result of 48 hours of French bombing of Damascus in retaliation for the Syrian revolt against the French Mandate - 1500 people reported killed

Bethlehem - Working Mother-of-Pearl
Working Mother-of-Pearl used (amongst other things) in the decoration of furniture and small decorative items in Bethlehem, then very much part of the Ottoman Empire

Turkish Cavalry - Constantinople - on Parade, surrounded by a border of seashells

Flers 1916
A British ammunition limber carrying shells and ammunition forward along the Lesboeufs Road, outside Flers, during the Battle of the Somme

Howitzer 1917
12 inch Howitzer gun and ammunition under camouflage netting at the Battle of Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

Battle Menin Road Ridge 1917
Shells bursting on the main road to Zonnebeke running over newly captured ground at the Battle of Menin Road Ridge in France on the British front during World War I on 20th September 1917

Battle of Festubert 1915
German first line trenches with shells bursting in the distance. The ditch between the British and German lines was at some point 15 feet wide

Titanic anchor made of shells
A commemorative anchor-shaped ornament made of shells, with a picture of the ill-fated Titanic cruise ship at the centre

A French Battery in action near Sedd-el-Bahr
This picture shows one of the guns of a French battery in action in the Gallipoli Peninsula. Throughout thr memorable landing opertaions the French troops rendered valuable assistance to the British

Fairly Tree d
A soldier disguised rather improbably as a tree, scampers gingerly through the mud of the West Front, doing his best to avoid a cluster of enemy shells falling nearby

Shell Factory, World War I
An English Shell Factory during World War I

Red Indian pair at Earls Court
Mr and Mrs Spotted Weasel - Sioux Indians taking part in the Red Man Spectacle at Earls Court, London

A Scarborough Hotel wrecked by German shells: The devastated saloon of the Grand

Scarborough Castle, damaged by German shells

For big projectiles used by the Germans in the Great War: Wicker cases for shells

The former capital of West Flanders damaged by German shells: A house wrecked next to the claustrum St. Martini

Arras ruined by German shells: Damage done to the sixteenth
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Comparatively undamaged amidst all the shells: The remarkable escape of one of the monuments in Ramscapelle Church

Destroyed Railway at Ancre; First World War, 1916
Photograph showing a section of German railway destroyed by British high explosive artillery shells during fighting on the Western Front at Ancre, 1916

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