This 1920 memoir was written by Maj. W.H.L. Watson (D.S.O., D.C.M.) who joined the HBMGC in December 1916, and was posted to the command of 11 Co., D Bn. He?led the company in their?costly attack at 1st Bullecourt in April 1917, and subsequently was in action with them at 2nd Bullecourt, 3rd Ypres and C...
On quite a few surviving heavy tanks, the internal WD numbers, found above the secondary gear position on Mk IV and earlier or above the forward ammunition storage on Mk V's (and possibly V*'s), are missing. I imagine a few were souvenired by the Germans when they captured tanks but I wonder also if?re...
Hallo Peter, I`m preparing a long article about MG?s -including pictures. Is it possible to do with ADOBE/PdF or are there other rules whe all shall know. Couldn`t get any concrete information on board.
Dear Friends, Contributors and Webmasters; I thank you all for you did a wonderful job to present the equipment of the great war to the public. However, I'm a little disappointed for not seeing a section on the Ottoman artillery. I hope you shall add a section about the third (altough somewhat weak) gr...
I have recently updated several web site pages on WW1 guns and howitzers within my collection.? Use this link or the Links Page on Landships: ??http://lovettartillery.com/?Pieces included are all German 15cm. s.F.H. series howitzers, German 10cm. K.17, German 9cm. C/73, German 10,5cm lFH 16, G...
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I am looking for information and pictures of the German 8.8 cm L/30 quick-firing C/89: I am especially interested in the land batteries.
The breech is of a so-called spherical wedge type (Rundkeilverschluss in German). The wedge that closes the breech is ac...
Does anybody know anything about this howitzers?
According from Das Ehrenbuch der Deutschen Schweren Artillerie and Der Weltkrieg 1914-1918 at the outbreak of WW1 in German fortreess there were 32 Versuchs-Haubitzen 99, but I was not able to know anything about them.
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I am scratch building Koeningsberg gun used in East Africa. I have seen several remaining guns, but they seams to be different one from the other. Is there anyone who knows more about those ex naval guns?
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anybody know what this is? on the breech is says Krupp 1898. actually I have quite a few photos I can't identify in my folder called 'Artillery'. Many are from the Canadian War Museum. Its got an enormous collection of Great War Era guns, but they are all just piled on top of each other!
I got these photos from a Frenchman, Fabien Clesse, who found it on a WW1 Battlefield, and he want's help to identify what it is. He says it's "certainly a piece of artillery gun". My guess is that's it's perhaps an earth spade (don't know if that's the correct term) that sits at the end of the t...
I am looking for photos of Tanks in Canadian Service for use in an upcoming book - part of the Weapons of War series (http://www.servicepub.com/weapons.htm). Please contact me off-line at cliveATservicepub.com Thnx
Dear friends!
Here comes the most beautiful gun of them all! A true classic!! Krupp as used in East Africa and Balkan Wars. It is one of my favorite guns of WW1. In next mails some more obsolete guns from WW1.
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The Madsen saga seemed to have ended with the gun being issued to German mounted infantry,?Musketen Bataillons,?used as flying reinforcements. As they wore out or were destroyed or captured they were replaced by Lewises and these units were disbanded and merged into the general infantry. This pi...
though unfortunately i didnt take any pictures (thats about the only thing i didnt take pictures of, and only because i hadnt had the foresight to take my camera as my first failed trip the guards got upset with me and my cameras) it was quite nice, i took 2 trips, well sort of, the first time i went there i h...
How many of the Mk I males at Gaza were disabled by enemy action? I recently obtained a fairly poor photo which shows a disabled Mk I male at Gaza and would like to be certain of which one it is. The tank itself has had it's rear roof panels removed.
Looking at an old between the wars publication I noted a reference to the Mk II having "improved cast iron track rollers". I've not seen any other reference to this and its not the sort of thing you can tell from looking at a photo. I've often wondered if the Mk Is were particularly prone to mec...
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i'm an enthousiast in artillery of WWII, but my attention was drawn to the artillery made by Scoda. In an effort to build the 42cm Scoda M17 on 1/35 scale i got stuck by lack of pictures or drawings of the inside of the gun (craddle). The drawings i made was based on a&n...
I've been given an old Airfix model of La Haie Sainte farm. I thought it might be useful for dioramas, but it's dwarfed by?the Italeri house. Even the single-storey Airfix Forward Command Post comes almost to the roof of the farmhouse. Do I take it that the scale is the mysterious OO/HO, which is 1/76 or...
Hi, Im about to make a start on Emhars Whippet and would like scratchbuild the Hotchkiss mgs rather than use the kit items, has anyone a set of dimensions for this gun ????????????????? TIA ?????????????????????? Paul
not sure where this belongs, but, i was wondering if anyone had any information on different body armor designs, id seen pictures of curassiers and of course the brass pickelhaube designs. I was wondering if when they were desigining body armor they went back to any of those old style designs, like fu...
With a new resin kit of the RR and public rumors of another, I posted a few additional photos which might prove useful on my msn group ... under the "Other Stuff" folder.
I hope these prove useful!
http://groups.msn.com/RAFArmdCarCompanies/
I finally got a start on converting the Entex Rolls "Balloon Car" into a 1914 patter armoured car.? Here are a coupleof webcam shots of the progress I've made on the body.
