The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Austrian 37mm infanteriegeschütz M.15, serial number 1484, carriage number 3019. The gun has a rear tubular trail and two folding tubular front legs which when folded out, create a tripod. The gun wears its original paint. The gun could be mounted on small wooden spoked wheels, and could also be fitted with a splinter-proof shield. This example has neither.
This was a light infantry support weapon with a range of up to 3 km. The weapon could be broken into three loads for transport, and fired a range of HE, HE/ Shrapnel and tracer fixed ammunition. This example, made by the Skoda Arsenal, was captured at Damascus by the 4th Light Horse Regiment, probably on 1 or 2 October 1918, when they captured the Turkish Hospital and took over 11,000 prisoners. The unit War Diary for 2 October makes mention of the capture of "four small model field pieces".
Austrian 37mm infanteriegeschütz M.15. The gun has a rear tubular trail and two folding tubular front legs which when folded out, create a tripod. The gun is mounted on two wooden spoked wheels and w
Austrian mountain gun, no 1549 and carriage no 3006. This was a light infantry support weapon with a range of up to 3 km. The weapon could be broken into three loads for transport, and fired a rang
10 cm howitzer with Sheet steel box trail gun carriage, gun shield, and mud guards on wooden spoked wheels. Factory fabrication number on breech ring 8660. Breech block number 4964. Firing pin presen
10.5 cm Light field howitzer, on a sheet steel box trail. The gun is fitted with two wooden spoked wheels and anti splinter gun shield. Breech operational, with a horizontal sliding breech block. Bree
Light field artillery piece. Horizontal sliding breech. Steel box carriage, with two wooden spoked wheels. Breech is stamped with the gun number: 35, and Friedrich Krupp, Essen, 1913. The weight of t
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