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37 photos and 1 illustration tagged howitzer, from 10 members of Flickr Commons.

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Related tags

Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:

• artillery
• cannon
• wwi
• worldwari
• worldwarone
• thegreatwar
• greatwar
• firstworldwar
• ww1
• artillerymen
• war
• soldiers
• libraryofcongress
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• france
• 105mmhowitzer
• 19141918
• nls:dodprojectid=74462370
• organization:library=nationallibraryofscotland
• owner:name=nationallibraryofscotland
• nls:source=solrxml
• m2a1howitzer
• m2a1
• m101howitzer

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• SDASM Archives 10 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 9 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Scotland 7 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 4 photos & illustrations
• University of Victoria Libraries 3 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Australia 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• U.S. National Archives 1 photo / illustration
• The Library of Virginia 1 photo / illustration
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

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German 5.9 gun captured by British (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• philthydirtyanimal said:

  I know what "circa" means, but just for clarity, this cannot be earlier than 1916 because the steel helmet wasn't with the troops until April 1916 at the earliest.

• B-59 said:

  15 cm schwere Feldhaubitze 13 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_cm_sFH_13

• Art Siegel said:

  Cropped from this John Warwick Brooke photo on the Imperial War Museum site, captioned "Royal Artillery officers of the 9th Division examining one of the German 5.9 inch howitzers captured in the west bank of Happy Valley. It was dated 13 February 1917." Production date 1917-04 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205237348

• Art Siegel said:

  More on the photographer: digital.nls.uk/first-world-war-official-photographs/paget...

• Ryan (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks to all of you for this great information! We'll add some of it to the record the next time we update.

Howitzer of the 55th Australian Siege Artillery in its lair

from State Library of New South Wales

• Sgt. Randell said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Australian Military, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• Glenn said:

  Soldiers in action ... doing what they do best... love these type photo's especially historical ones.... Mainly because the photo's we take today will be as historical as this one day.....

• brian everitt said:

  They would I am almost sure be posed but that does not detract from the result one bit.

6 inch Howitzer in Hofzarlan (?), Bonn

from University of Victoria Libraries

• TIMRAAB227 said:

  The photo was taken in the Hofgarten park