Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/BL 60-pounder gun

BL 60-pounder gun

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Original – A British 60 pounder Mk I battery in action on a cliff top at Cape Helles, Gallipoli, possibly in June 1915. The unit might be the 90th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, located forward of Hill 114.

Reason

Outstanding picture quality for the time (1915), you can even see the nickname given to the cannon clearly on the barrel with zoom.

Articles in which this image appears

BL 60-pounder gun, Artillery

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Weaponry

Creator

Ernest Brooks

• Support as nominator – Grozalunatic (talk) 02:17, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

• I struck this vote. User has less than 100 edits. See instructions on top of the WP:FPC page. Bammesk (talk) 17:22, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

  I believe the nominator is actually an exception to that. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 04:09, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

• Support – Bammesk (talk) 16:42, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
• Support per nominator. The quality of this image is remarkable for the time and it has very strong EV given it provides what looks like a very realistic depiction of one of these guns in combat. Nick-D (talk) 00:19, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
• Support; current edition is a very good picture as for 1915. – Hamid Hassani (talk) 06:11, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
• Support, nice historic shot and EV. Brandmeister^talk 07:49, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
• Support as per above. Moonreach (talk) 14:45, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:60 pounder Cape Helles June 1915.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:30, 5 June 2024 (UTC)