Landships II

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Markings on a 75 Mle1897 - What Do They Mean?

Ralph Lovett · General

This is an odd marking. Most are A.BS for "Atelier de Bourges". This must be for a different depot manufacturer.

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Ralph Lovett

Tanker · Field Marshal

It's "Tarbes"

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"Atelier de Tarbes"?

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Thank you Tanker and Ralph. Using your information I found the French Wikipedia article on the 75. It has much more information than the English language wiki article, including a sentence or two on where the guns were made.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_de_75_mm_mod%C3%A8le_1897

This gun is now at Harriston, Ontario at the War Memorial. It was allocated shortly after the war, sometime around 1920 give or take a year. Unfortunately there is no information in the records about the capture of this gun.

I am wondering if any of the German Landshippers can find anything about where and how Germany acquired this gun (or who was using it last and where). And I am wondering if any French Landshippers can say where this gun was being used when it was lost to the Germans.

I am going on the theory that this gun was captured by the Germans and then captured from them by the Canadians.