The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 case.
ROCKINGHAM, WA, 1935. MEMBERS OF THE 3RD BRIGADE, AUSTRALIAN FIELD ARTILLERY MILITIA, LOADING ONE OF THEIR 4.5 INCH HOWITZERS WITH LIVE AMMUNITION. THE GUN SERGEANT IN THE FOREGROUND IS RAMMING THE SH
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.
NORTHERN TERRITORY. 1942-10-29. AFTER HAVING "LAYED" THE GUN ON THE TARGET IT IS READY FOR FIRING. PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS THE PROJECTILE BEING LOADED INTO THE BREECH OF A 4.5 INCH HOWITZER 41 AUSTRALIAN FIE
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
GUNNERY PRACTICE ABOARD THE AUXILIARY MINESWEEPER, HMAS DOOMBA. AN RAN RATING SLIDING A CARTRIDGE ON TO THE LOADING TRAY PRIOR TO RAMMING IT INTO THE BREECH OF THE VESSEL'S FOUR INCH GUN. (PHOTOGRAPHE
Gun crew at drill on a 4.7 inch MK XIX mounting on the destroyer HMAS Bataan. As a round is prepared for ramming into the gun's breech two ratings wait ready to load a shell and cartridge case. Not
