Hi could anyone tell me what type of 15pdr is referred to here:
"Then he opened fire on Bruka with his own two fifteen-pounders."
"Rasim, a Syrian officer, formerly a battery commander in the Turkish Army, was fighting these two guns; and he made a great demonstration with them. They had been sent down as a gift from Egypt, anyhow, old rubbish thought serviceable for the wild Arabs, just as the sixty thousand rifles supplied the Sherif were condemned weapons, relics of the Gallipoli campaign. So Rasim had no sights, nor range-finder, no range tables, no high explosive."
"His distance might have been six thousand yards; but the fuses of his shrapnel were Boer War antiquities, full of green mould, and, if they burst, it was sometimes short in the air, and sometimes grazing."
page115 wordsworth classics
Currently theres 3 candidates.... which all used the same shell.....
Old 15pdr BL at least one battery saw service in East Africa 15pdr BLC a conversion of the above with recuperator and quick opening breech QF 15pdr Mk1 manufactured by Erhardt used in Egypt against the Sennusi
If anyone could shed some light on this it would be most appreciated...
