A 3-inch mortar of 102 Mortar Battery in action at Makyazi, Burma, 1944 (c)

Photograph, World War Two, Far East, 1944 (c).

The three-inch mortar was the standard British mortar from the late 1920s to the late 1960s. In this image two West African soldiers of 81st Division muzzle-load and fire the weapon while a British officer looks on.

Photograph from an album of 36 photographs compiled by Captain E B Mee (later Major), Royal Signals, 81st West African Division, Burma, 1944-1945.