To mark the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Cambrai The Tank Museum has released a series of videos, including a full length documentary on the Battle. Cambrai: The Tank Corps Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX_BnN4cWbo
Hi my name is Ash, im 42 from North Wales. I'm disabled and use a wheelchair. I'm interested im military history especially world war one. I go to military museums sometimes with my friend and he knows about tanks and aircraft from ww1 and ww2. His knowledge amazes me but he tells me he's forgott...
Dannevoux. January 31, 1919 ) near Verdun( This Howitzer is of 38 cm caliber and was manufactured in Pilsen, Austria in 1917. It was captured September 26 by the 319th Infantry 80th Division. In destroying the gun before leaving the recoil was unfastened and a charge exploded which threw the base cap...
Came across the attached image - the inscription says the A7V was displayed on the Esplanade des Invalides (runs from the Hotel des Invalides to the south bank of the Seine). There's lots of photo evidence that the A7V "Elfriede" was displayed at the Place de la Concorde - the armour had already been...
Recently switched to using Yandex as my search engine - now I get lots of interesting Russian search results Russian modelling company with lots of artillery model subjects that I haven't seen before - (I'm probably wrong but what do I know about plastic models) https://www.combrig-models.com/...
Amazing what a decent search engine will dredge up - the attached is an artillery piece which the caption said was captured at Cambrai in Nov 1917. The caption says Krupp 21cm M1891 but I don't think so - opinions please? Charlie
On Landships II there is an article on a artillery portee vehicle built by Renault during WW1 which is called "Renault FB" I note that in GBM 137 in an article on the RALTs the same vehicle is called "Renault FP" - bottom of Page 24, GBM 137. So which is correct? I don't mind changing the Landships II arti...
The 15cm was an Austro-Hungarian howitzer designed in the early 1890s. It went through a number of upgrades but didn't improve over the original mediocre performance. However, due to a lack of anything else suitable it saw service in the early years of WW1 until replaced by the very capable Skoda 15...
Our friends at The Weald Foundation are looking for contemporary film of the TSF in use. At the mo, they have only a very short clip. Anyone know of any more?
A bit more work on the 10,5cm lFH 1898/09: 10,5 cm. leichte Feld Haubitze l.F.H. 98/09 (lovettartillery.com) -- Edited by Ralph Lovett on Sunday 10th of September 2023 03:32:29 AM
As well as the 95mm mortar the Imperial Arsenal in Istanbul also recycled 15cm Mörsers as mortars. These were originally short barrelled (L/6.4?) but seem to have had a barrel extension and a new carriage. The list of guns imported by the ottomans includes 20 15cm L/6.4 Mörsers from Krupp in 1885 but...
Recent thread on the Weald Foundation raised the question of the identity of the WW1 trailer they have. It seems they have a Weitz trailer - they say so in the advertising for the 2023 open day. There were also trailers built by La Buire which look rather similar. I've seen references to Delauny-Belle...
One of the puzzling artillery pieces captured by the Light Horse in Palestine in 1917 were a battery of rather odd looking 95mm smooth bore guns. It was thought that these were fortress guns but it now appears as if they were one of two types of mortars constructed by the Ottomans from recycled guns. In...
In their recent article about the Tritton Papers the Tank Museum says the papers contain "some sketches that appear to indicate that the rear wheels were primarily intended to correct the centre of gravity of the tank, rather than, as previously believed, to aid steering." I was never able to unders...
The very kind people at The Weald Foundation showed me round their exhibits. https://www.wealdfoundation.org/ Includes our guide, Duarte. Also, since it's not too far away we called in on the Mark IV in Ashford.
Visited the Weald Foundation in Kent. https://www.wealdfoundation.org/ Some extraordinary vehicles there, mostly WWII but some splendid WWI. Pictures to follow, but first: What is this? I've a feeling I've seen it somewhere before, but can't recollect it.
Does anybody know how the German 7,58 cm mortar came into Dutch service? This picture (NIMH) shows two at the Centrale Storm School in The Hague, most likely by the end of the Great War. handed over by retreating German troops in 1918?
The Tank Museum at Bovington has announced the arrival, or impending arrival, of a lot of reference material, including: a revised edition of The Tanks at Flers, and A large collection of William Tritton's correspondence. Worth a look round the site. https://tankmuseum.org/article/tritton-m...
