Royal Artillery gun team, 1917 (c)

Photograph, World War One, Western Front, 1917 (c).

Members of the Royal Field Artillery with their 18-pounder field gun. Over 8,000 of these weapons were manufactured during the war and between them fired 100 million shells. 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 collection of 282 photographs collected by Second-Lieutenant Cooper.