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A New Zealand 18 pounder gun in action at Beaussart, France, during World War I

  • Simon Claessen said:
    they are wearing gas masks. what would the srange contraption on the gun muzzle be?
  • Gasmann64 said:
    Simon Claessen What you're seeing is actually the front end of the recuperator (mechanism which returns the barrel forward after firing); the box is an armored oil reservoir. Heavy firing sometimes weakened the spring and caused loss of oil in the recuperator; the barrel would then have to be pushed back up into firing position by hand, so the armored reservoir helped to maintain the oil level.
  • Simon Claessen said:
    Ahh. the round was just fired and the barrel is in its aft position. now I see. Thanks for the explanation!

Customs Street East, Auckland, 1924

  • blightsmite said:
    Where is everyone? Where is anyone?

‘But still the Horse begged him to look behind him’

  • noboringwhite said:
    Wonderful art!

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