The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Three French soldiers with breech loading trench mortar, probably about 70-100 mm calibre. The soldiers are French, identifiable from their ‘M15 Adrian’ style helmets. The weapons are good representations of a ‘Mortier de 75 de Tranchée'. This was the first trench mortar to be widely issued after the Champagne offensive, and could fire up to 1700m, using the shell of a field gun – the canon de 75 Modéle 1897. The weapon was breech loaded, and to make the shell easier to ram home, the lands on the rifling were reduced by 2.5 mm. The weapon rested on a bed fabricated from sheet steel.
Hard Leather rectangular optical sight and quadrant case designed to mount on the splinter-proof shield of a French Canon de 75 Modèle 1897 field gun. The case is 340mm long x 260 mm wide and 55mm de
The French canon de 75 mm modele 1897 field gun was the standard French and American field gun of the First World War. The gun has an interrupted screw breech, a hydropneumatic recoiling barrel, a spl
The 37 mm Canon d'Infanterie modele 1916 is a breech loading, quick-fire infantry gun with a hydropneumatic recuperator, and a screw breech. The weapon was designed to be be easily broken down into t
German 17 cm mittlerer Minenwerfer neuer art (medium trench mortar, new model). The weapon is a rifled muzzle-loading mortar, with six rifling grooves. The barrel length of 4.5 calibres identifies it
German manufactured rifled breech loading siege cannon, with a screw-operated horizontally acting breech mechanism. The gun barrel's trunnions are mounted directly onto the carriage. The trunnions are