Mortar practice, 1943
Photograph by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, Italy, 1943.
Two British soldiers fire a two-inch mortar during an exercise on Sicily prior to the Allied invasion of Italy. The standard version of the two-inch mortar had a barrel length of 21 inches and could fire a high explosive bomb weighing 2.25lb to a range of 500 yards.
From a photograph album containing 246 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1975-03-63-14-97
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1975-03-63-14-97