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Great Austrian Skoda gun which fired a 12-inch shellVintage Photographs - Artillery
Updated - Saturday, 27 May, 2006

This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war.  Specifically this sub-section contains photos of artillery developed and deployed during wartime.

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U.S. artillery in action (WW)

French Filloux gun in the Oise district (WW)

British artillery battery going into action (WW)

Belgian field artillery disguised by bushes and straw (NW)
Motor truck pulling siege guns and supplies (NW) British field artillery (NW)
Defending the Belgian swamps (NW) Shells for the French 75 gun (NW)
Two German siege guns firing under cover of a forest (NW) French artillery in action (NW)
Fieldpiece hit on the muzzle by a shell (NW) One of Germany's 'Busy Berthas' (NW)
A disabled Serbian field gun (NW) German artillery advancing on Warsaw (NW)
Russian field gun overturned by a shell (NW) Serbian 3-inch gun being moved to a new emplacement (NW)
Enormous French gun used on the Somme (NW) French artillery crossing the Vardar River to aid the Serbs (NW)
Serbian artillery covering the Great Retreat (NW) Serbian artillery retreating through the Albanian Alps (NW)
A masked Italian gun bombarding an Austrian position near Lagana (NW) French artillery passing a Greek cavalry regiment (NW)
British guns to help the embattled Serbs (NW) 240mm calibre guns on steel cars near Verdun (NW)
A dummy - fake - French gun intended to fool German airmen (NW) A Krupp gun (NW)
French artillery battery at Verdun (NW) Store for thousands of 75mm shells destined for use at Verdun (NW)
A caisson of high explosive shells struck, yet there was no explosion (NW) French artillery embarked on boats (MF)
Gun and gunners who downed a Zeppelin L77 with a lucky shot (NW) A French 75 gun which fired 32 shots in two minutes (NW)
French gunners with their 75 gun (NW) Tractor used by the British in Greece to transport guns and supplies (NW)
Serbs defending the mountain passes to the Serb capital (HW) 100-ton German siege gun as used during siege of Namur (GW)
Japanese sailors getting naval guns into position to shell a fort (GW) Austrian 12-inch siege howitzer (GW)
A German heavy siege gun (GW) Heavy guns arriving at British headquarters on the Western Front (GW)
Montenegran fortress battery operating against the Austrians (GW) Trench mortars captured from the Germans on the Western Front (GW)
French dummy cannon made from a tree trunk to deceive German airmen (GW) Turkish Army field artillery armed with Krupp guns (GW)
British guns arriving at one of the Headquarters on the Front (GW) Turkish artillery in readiness for the desert campaign in 1915 (GW)
Russian artillery on the battlefront in Poland (GW) British Naval Brigade hauling a 4.7 gun for siege operations (GW)
Two German field-guns wrecked by Allied airmen (GW) Some of the 30 German guns captured by the French at Alsace (GW)
British artillery in action at Neuve Chapelle (GW) A French 75 gun (GW)
Loading a French 75 gun in the Argonne on a bed of young trees (GW) Firing one of the heavy French guns in the Argonne forest (GW)
Russian artillery on the Eastern Front (GW) Russian spoils of war: guns captured at Tiflis (GW)
Russian guns trained on Przemysl fortifications, winter 1914-15 (GW) French 75's in action (GW)
British troops examining captured Sedd-el-Bahr fortress gun (GW) Wrecked Turkish gun at Sedd-el-Bahr inscribed with 'God be with us' (GW)
Turkish quick-firers in action against Allied forces at Gallipoli (GW) A British battery in action at Gallipoli (GW)
Russian artillery on the retreat from Warsaw, Aug 1915 (GW) German shell bursting near a French gun (GW)
Loading one of the French 155-mm guns in its concealed position (GW) Oxen-drawn artillery disguised in Serbia to deceive aircraft (GW)
German field guns captured at Loos and Hulluch on display in London (GW) Serbian 6-inch Howitzer Battery in action (GW)
British guns in position in Mesopotamia (GW) Preparing for a heavy bombardment of German trenches (GW)
Belgian artillery in action at Lierre (FF) A French "75" trained on German lines from a distance of 2,800 yards (GWS)
Serving a French heavy gun in position in the St Aubin region (GWS) British gun protected by sandbags and earthwork near Kurna (GWS)
A British gun position in Mesopotamia (GWS) Captured Turkish field-gun in British hands at Shat-el-Arab (GWS)
Indian artillery in readiness for a Turkish attack (GWS) Indian troops with a gun captured from Turkish forces in the Gulf (GWS)
French aerial torpedo about to be fired from a trench (GWS) Close view of a larger aerial torpedo used in French trenches (GWS)
One of General Botha's batteries in action in German S.W. Africa (GWS) Heavy French gun in the Argonne forest (GWS)
Italian field artillery at the gallop (GWS) French 75 gun firing at German aircraft in Alsace (GWS)
Italian big gun used in mountain warfare against the Austrians (GWS) An Italian light field-gun (GWS)
German 'revolver cannon' captured by French forces (GWS) Captured Russian guns on display in Berlin (GWS)
French 75 gun photographed in Alsace (GWS) French artillery in action in the Vosges (GWS)
Empty French 75 shell cases (GWS) A British battery at work on a sand-ridge in Gallipoli (GWS)
Russian guns captured by German forces (GWS) German artillery going into action near Gorlice (GWS)
Austrian Skoda gun in action (GWS) French artillerymen wearing gas masks (GWS)
Artillery review by King George V at Aldershot (GWS) A large cannon shipped ready for service on the Belgian front (GWS)
Belgian artillery officers entertaining British Red Cross visitors (GWS) Ammunition train bringing up supplies for the Allied guns (GWS)
Serving an ambuscaded gun on the Russian Front in Poland (GWS) British soldiers seated on a captured Turkish gun at Cape Helles (GWS)
Anzac troops working the guns at Gallipoli (GWS)  

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