18-pounder in action at Authuille on the Somme, September 1916
Lantern slide, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), 1916.
During the Battle of the Somme (1916) the British fired over 15 million shells. Of those, some 10 million were fired by 18-pounders. With a crew of ten men, it could fire 18-pound shrapnel, high explosive or smoke shells up to six kilometres (over 6,500 yards).
From a box of 50 lantern slides.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1978-11-157-29-23
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1978-11-157-29-23