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Gunners from 1st Medium Regiment, Indian Artillery, next to their guns, February 1946
Photograph, India, 1946.
The unit was armed with breech loading 5.5 inch Medium Field Guns. This weapon required a crew of nine men and had an effective range of around 14 kilometres when firing a high explosive shell. The 5.5 inch gun saw service in Burma with several Indian Army artillery units.
One of 233 official photographs collected by Captain Roy Wiltshire in his capacity as Editor of the Indian Army Review.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1990-08-65-115
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study Collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1990-08-65-115