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British QF 4.7 inch Gun on 1900 Mk I "Woolwich" carriage, Western Front, World War I.


AWM caption : "Picardie, Somme Pozieres. Australian transport limbers returning down Sausage Valley gallop past a battery of British 4.7 inch quick firing (QF) field guns."
Date circa July - August 1916
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This image is available from the National Library of Scotland You can see this image in its original context, along with the rest of the Library's digital collections, in the NLS Digital Gallery
From the papers of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928).


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This image is available from the Collection Database of the Australian War Memorial under the ID Number:
EZ0072
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current10:16, 12 October 2009Thumbnail for version as of 10:16, 12 October 2009582 × 437 (119 KB)Rcbutcherreplaced with better image from NLS
15:19, 5 October 2007Thumbnail for version as of 15:19, 5 October 2007800 × 501 (133 KB)Rcbutcher{{Information |Description=British QF 4.7 inch Gun on 1900 "Woolwich", Western Front. <br>It is being passed by what appear to be field gun ammunition wagons returning to the rear, presumably for more ammunition. <br>Note attachmen

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