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One of the most prominent private schools in Australia is Geelong Grammar School. (Prince Charles was a student there for some time). After WW1 the school was allocated a German 77mm gun, no.:13306, captured by the 7th Infantry Brigade, AIF.

The gun was part of the School Cadet Unit for many years but has subsequently disappeared, present location unknown. Two other Melbourne based private schools have firm evidence that their guns were buried, one in a levee bank and the other in a WW2 air raid shelter and currently activity is in progress to find them.



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Nice - supposedly there's a German field gun somewhere under my town, I know someone who is certain it was hitched up to a team of horses and buried under the town in the 1930's. I'm yet to do more research into it though

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This is a newspaper clipping regarding a search for a missing German "War Trophy" gun believed to be buried in the grounds of a Melbourne private school Brighton Grammar.  This is a 75mm gun, no. 513, captured in Damascus on 30 Sep 1918 by the 29 Australian Light Horse.

Another Melbourne private school Scotch College buried it's WW1 "War Trophy" gun in a levee bank that was made to prevent flooding from a nearby river. This is a 105mm howitzer no.12442 captured in Damascus on 1 Oct 1918 by 4 Australian Light Horse.

There is quite a history of such guns being buried in Australia. The following newspaper clipping describes the search for a gun that was buried in the local garbage dump in Echuca, inVIctoria and which was found and is now on display. This is a 77mm gun no.6190, captured by A Corps., AIF, in France.


-- Edited by sandy1000 on Friday 25th of December 2009 01:15:35 AM

-- Edited by sandy1000 on Friday 25th of December 2009 01:22:30 AM

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Oh really! Is it a fact I am extremely unaware of it? Thanks for letting me know about this

fact I had read a lot about WW1 and WW2 but get to know about this. I would really like to write about this fact and after my work as I am working with 6 dollar essay and wrote academic assignments.

All thanks to you for sharing such a useful and historical fact.



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