Weapon Collection (#21)

The secret of the German offensive 1918
This diagram shows several types of grenades the Germans were using during World War One, Besozzi grenade which had a 5 seconds time fuse, Pear-shaped grenade

Assembling fuses 1916
Munition workers in World War One, packing fuse heads. 1916

Turkish dervish, Turkey. Date: circa 1870

Algerian man with gun. Date: circa 1870

Rockets and flying bombs by G. H. Davis
Rockets and flying bombs as seaborne weapons of future navies. How wireless-controlled robot projectiles may be carried and operated by capital ships. 1945

Zeppelin raids by G. H. Davis
The Zeppelin raids: some notes on the airships and their weapons. How a Zeppelin goes aloft when attacked -- the working of the elevators and the release of the water ballast. Date: 1915

Captured German naval gun, Cambrai Front, WW1
A captured 5.9 German naval gun near Cambrai in France on the Western Front during World War One. Date: November 1917

Captured German gun, Mametz, Western Front, WW1
A German gun captured in Mametz Wood, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British shell bursting on German trenches, WW1
A British shell bursting on German trenches on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British airmen arming a plane with bombs, WW1
British airmen arming a plane with bombs, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1918

British soldiers taking captured German gun, WW1
British soldiers taking a captured German gun on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Big guns on their way to the Front, WW1
Big guns on the road on their way to the Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Six-inch British howitzer in action, Western Front, WW1
A six-inch British howitzer in action in the dust and heat of the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

American soldiers with machine gun, Western Front, WW1
American soldiers with a machine gun behind barbed wire on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Ben Tillett looking at a British howitzer, France, WW1
Ben Tillett, socialist politician and trade union leader, looking at a British howitzer on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Destroyer at target practice by G. H. Davis
Navy notes of the week: a British destroyer at target practice, with marksmen firing torpedoes. 1912

Captured German gun on Western Front, WW1
A German 8-inch gun captured by Highlanders on the Western Front in France during the Cambrai Offensive, World War One. Date: circa 1916

Captured German howitzer on the Somme, WW1
British soldiers on the Somme with a captured German howitzer, World War One. Date: circa 1916

British wiring party passing large gun, Arras, WW1
A British wiring party passing a large gun mounted on a train near Arras, France, on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Black Watch soldiers taking a break, WW1
Black Watch soldiers taking a break on the Western Front during World War One. The man at the centre is holding a rifle grenade. Date: circa 1916

Aeroplane in modern warfare by G. H. Davis
The aeroplane in modern warfare: how the aeroplanes of the combatant powers have fared. Left: dropping bombs from an aeroplane onto massed troops below

Sinking of German ship, Konigin Luise, by G. H. Davis
The sinking of the German mine layer, Konigin Luise, off Harwich in the early stages of the First World War. Showing the position of the Lance when firing the three fatal shots. Date: August 1914

Sectional view of gun-house and decks by G. H. Davis
From the Fleet: naval notes of the week. Showing a sectional view through a gun-house of a ship and the decks below. Date: 1914

Mines and torpedoes by G. H. Davis
Navy Notes of the Week: the question of mines and torpedoes. Showing naval minesweepers at work, sweeping a wire across an underwater mine field; a modern high-speed long-range torpedo;

Zeppelins aerial torpedo by G. H. Davis
The Zeppelins aerial torpedo: the appearance of the new missile. Top left: the launching cradle, showing firing pistol. Top right: the aerial torpedo with its turbine at rear end

Shell damage in Hartlepool, WW1
Shell damage to buildings in Hartlepool after a night of bombing during the First World War. Diagrams show the path of a shell, damaging houses and industrial chimneys. 16 December 1914

The aeroplane in warfare by G. H. Davis
The aeroplane in warfare: aeroplanes used for finding the range of the enemys entrenchments. Left: a fire bomb, attached to a parachute, dropped from a Taube monoplane

Submarine incident in North Sea by G. H. Davis
A submarine incident in the North Sea. How the sinking of the German cruiser Hela was accomplished (top). Two other illustrations relate to

Mine problem in North Sea by G. H. Davis
The mine problem in the North Sea. The mine layer at work, showing the way in which the mine is held below the water and how it is exploded by a passing ship

Naval manoeuvres of 1913 by G. H. Davis
The naval manoeuvres of 1913. Torpedo versus gun -- the vulnerability of the battleship and the destroyer. Date: 1913

Underwater pioneers by G. H. Davis
Underwater pioneers: early ancestors of our midget submarines. Some 17th to 20th century designs: primitive forerunners of Britains latest naval weapon. Date: 1943

Britains acoustic shell by G. H. Davis
The acoustic shell: Britains ace killer of flying bombs during the Second World War. The British-invented radio proximity shell, which explodes itself when in lethal range of its target. 1945

Military radar in wartime by G. H. Davis
Military radar: how this vital secret weapon helped the Allied land forces to achieve final victory during the Second World War. Date: 1945

Use of radar in the war at sea by G. H. Davis
Radar in the war at sea: some ways in which the Royal Navy used this weapon during the Second World War. Date: 1945

Use of radar in the air war by G. H. Davis
Radar: how the most important secret weapon of offence and defence was applied to the air war. Its vital contribution to all the fighting services during the Second World War. Date: 1945

British science and ingenuity in war by G. H. Davis
How British science and ingenuity contributed to the defeat of the Germans at sea, on land, and in the air. A few of the many weapons, devices and tactics, both offensive and defensive

German inventions for war on land by G. H. Davis
The ingenuity of German scientists applied to the war on land. Illustrating the German armys exploitation of scientific and technical inventions during the Second World War. Date: 1945

Bomb launching installations in France by G. H. Davis
Homes of the flying bombs: the layout of launching installations in northern France during the Second World War. They are sometimes camouflaged among woods, or disguised as small villages. Date: 1944

Naval support for armies in Normandy by G. H. Davis
The big guns of the Royal Navy supporting the Allied armies in Normandy during the Second World War. How warships, guided by air and ground spotters

German flying bomb by G. H. Davis
The flying bomb: Germanys latest weapon used against England during the Second World War. Explanatory drawings of the flying robot launched across the Channel to southern England. Date: 1944

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

Fighter bombers v. dive bombers by G. H. Davis
Fighter bombers versus dive bombers during the Second World War: operational methods defined. The dive bomber is vulnerable to fighter attack -- the fighter bomber is a more versatile weapon

Torpedo in naval warfare by G. H. Davis
The deadliest weapon in naval warfare during the Second World War: the torpedos intricate mechanism and modus operandi of firing. Date: 1942

The German acoustic mine by G. H. Davis
The German acoustic mine: a new terror under the sea during the Second World War. A trembler circuit, set in motion by an advancing ships propeller vibrations, brings about an explosion. Date: 1941

Money and munitions by G. H. Davis
Money and munitions: an illustrated armament catalogue. Pictures showing the various costs of the weapons used during the Second World War, ranging from a battleship at 8, 000

German incendiary bombs by G. H. Davis
German incendiary bombs: clockwork and electric types in use during the Second World War. Date: 1941

First torpedo air attack by G. H. Davis
The Second World Wars first aircraft torpedo attack: a German destroyer hit. Torpedo-carrying aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm attacks a German destroyer off Trondheim. 11 April 1940

Mines from the Crimean onwards by G. H. Davis
Mines, from the infernal machine used by the Russians during the Crimean War to colossal barrages employed during the Second World War. 1940

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