The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Members of the 170th Independent Mortar Battery Royal Artillery prepare to turn away and block their ears, as a soldier (left) loads and fires a 4.2 inch mortar. He is standing on metal mortar bomb boxes to give him added height to load the projectile. Note the summer bush hats the soldiers are wearing. Projectiles and packing tubes lie on the ground around the mortar. 4.2 inch mortars can fire high explosive ammunition, as well as white phosphorus projectiles to create smoke screens, and luminescent rounds. This mortar is fitted to a mobile baseplate for towing behind a vehicle. The battery are in support of the 29th British Infantry Brigade.
Members of the 170th Independent Mortar Battery Royal Artillery, turn away and block their ears in an attempt to protect themselves from the explosion of a 4.2 inch mortar. A soldier wearing a slouch
Members of the 170th Independent Mortar Battery Royal Artillery, wearing summer bush hats, turn away and block their ears, in an attempt to protect themselves from the noise of simultaneous explosions
Members of the 170th Independent Mortar Battery Royal Artillery, rest by their 4.2 inch mortar which has been set up on a road beside a field. 4.2 inch mortars can fire high explosive ammunition, as w
Soldiers turn away and block their ears, in an attempt to protect themselves from the simultaneaous explosions of two 4.2 inch chemical mortars. The soldiers are probably from a New Zealand mortar b
Members of the 1st Field Trials Company cover their ears as a 4.2 inch mortar fires a gas canister during an experiment on the effects of mustard gas and other chemical warfare agents.
BROADMEADOWS, VIC. 1943-08-16. 2-INCH MORTAR PROJECTILE COMMENCING TO EMIT SMOKE AT A DEMONSTRATION OF SMOKE SCREEN PROJECTILES ARRANGED BY CHEMICAL WARFARE SECTION.
