Image: NLS Haig - Repairing one of our guns for use in the continued advance

Description: IWM caption : THE THIRD BATTLE OF YPRES (PASSCHENDAELE) 31 JULY - 10 NOVEMBER 1917 Description: Battle of Polygon Wood 26 September - 3 October: A new barrel is lowered into position on an 8 inch howitzer by the Army Ordnance Corps. Comment : This is an 8 inch howitzer utilizing bored-out and shortended 6 inch naval gun barrel. Probably a BL 8 inch Howitzer Mk V.
Title: NLS Haig - Repairing one of our guns for use in the continued advance
Credit: 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 This is photograph Q 2909 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 1900-09)
Author: Ernest Brooks
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