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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.

Click here to read introductory notes relating to this section, including information on photograph sources.  Use the sidebar to the right to select other categories of photos available within this section.

The photos reproduced below are in thumbnail format - simply click a given photograph to view a larger copy within a separate window.

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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) British artillery on manouevres in 1914 (GWS)
Battery of artillery on the Gallipoli shore (GWS)  

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