The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The camouflaged 4.5 howitzer and the five-man gun crew of an English battery in Palestine. The gun has been emplaced in a shallow dugout, with sandbag protection around the upper rim. A camouflage net has been placed over the entire dugout.
One of the gun crews of an English battery in Palestine ramming the shell into the breech of their 4.5 inch howitzer. The man on the left-hand side in the foreground is about to insert the cartridge c
A 4.5 inch howitzer of the 111th Battery of the Australian Field Artillery, at Ravine Wood, Ypres, Belgium. The camouflage hides the opening in front of the gun-pit when the howitzer is not in action.
Two unidentified gunners sitting beside a 4.5 inch howitzer Mark I in a gun pit of the 102nd Australian Howitzer Battery in northern France. Each man is holding a shell.
A 4.5 inch howitzer of the 111th Battery of the Australian Field Artillery, at Ravine Wood, Ypres, Belgium. The camouflage netting is pulled back from the front of the gun-pit when the howitzer is in
Ypres. October 1917. A member of 107th Howitzer Battery loading a 4.5 inch howitzer gun. The guns position is camouflaged and reinforced with sandbags. Note the extra shells in a pile to the left of t
Five unidentified members of a gun crew from the 102nd Howitzer Battery with one of their 4 inch guns. Note the camouflage netting that surrounds the gun position. (From the collection of 704 Driver
