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Rob


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Walkaround of the lovely little 2.75 inch mountain gun - used by British and Empire forces, especially in Palestine and Salonika. I can send original sized photos to anyone interested - a model of one in 1/76 or 1/72 would be superb! My great-grandad was a mountain gunner with 4th (Highland) Mountain Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery, who used them in Salonika (although I think he left the unit by then, but was on 10 pounders at Gallipoli)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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There isn't an article on the 2.75" (70mm) Mountain gun on Landships II.

Anyone got some period images or knows anything about the development and/or deployment

of his gun? I'll put an article together for Landships II with Rob's images.

Regards,

Charlie



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Pat


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CharlieC wrote:

 

Anyone got some period images or knows anything about the development and/or deployment

of his gun?

 

Nothing that couldn't be found in the English Wikipedia article and here

http://www.bulgarianartillery.it/Bulgarian%20Artillery%201/Ordnance%2070mm_Gb.htm

http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=2742.30;wap2

http://wegunners.webs.com/mountainartillery.htm

and in this period pictures

http://forhonourssake.blogspot.de/2012/03/mountain-guns.html

http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?q=searchType%3Dsimple%26simpleText%3D%26themeID%3D8%26resultsDisplay%3Dgrid%26page%3D6&pos=123&total=372&acc=2001-04-1-62

Full details should be included in this book:

http://books.google.de/books/about/World_War_I_Mountain_Artillery.html?id=SpXDbwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

I'd like to suggest to add a link to Brennan's conversion article as well:

http://landships.activeboard.com/t33157571/building-a-british-275inch-mountain-gun-for-wwi/

Regards, Pat



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Here's a few more, taken on exactly the same day a year previously as the above ones









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