Vintage Photographs - Artillery
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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