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James H


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Allegedly from 1910, but likely to have been still in service by 1914. Appears to be without recoil. Ring a bell?


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I'm not sure. This gun looks too small to be Krup gun in caliber 8.7 cm. James have yuo photo with biger resolution. I'm not even sure that this gun was breach loading. See the back of the gun tube.



-- Edited by nebojsa djokic on Thursday 7th of June 2012 07:44:58 PM

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This is a Belgian C 8c7 Mod 1878 made by Krupp. It came in service in 1887 at the Belgian field artillery. Some of those were still used in 1914 at the mobile fortress artillery and at the home guard. No recoil brake. It is not yet a Q.F. gun. Belgian field artillery adopted the first Q.F. gun in 1905 with the C 75 T.R. Cockerill-Krupp. It could be 1910 although I would say a little earlier (1900-1905).



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Thanks for that info, Roger. The bonnets de police in the photo do seem to be those of the Fortress Artillery.

Your books look great.



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Sorry, Neboja. It was such a long time ago that I can't remember where I came across the photo.

All I have found is this: http://canonspgmww1guns.canalblog.com/archives/2005/06/11/567530.html



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I think I'd go with a 75mm field gun rather than 87mm - perhaps a 75mm L/27 Krupp C/80. The 75mm and 87mm had a circular loading port - the sliding breech block had an approximately "D" cross section. The projectile was loaded separately from the bagged propellant. You'd have to go along way back - to before 1860 - to find a Krupp field gun that wasn't breech loading.

The first Belgian TR (or QF) field gun was the 75mm Krupp export gun, pretty much identical to the M1903 Turkish guns and M1904 Rumanian guns.  Kosar says it was a Model 1905, same as the Japanese Type 38 field gun.

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Charlie



-- Edited by CharlieC on Friday 8th of June 2012 05:52:21 AM

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