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A four-inch Stokes Mortar team, 1915 (c)

Photograph by Lieutenant Patrick Robert Koekkoek, Royal Engineers, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), 1915 (c).

The Stokes Mortar consisted of a smoothbore metal tube fixed to an anti-recoil base plate. When a mortar bomb was dropped into the tube, an impact sensitive primer in the base of the bomb would make contact with a firing pin at the bottom of the tube, and detonate, firing the bomb towards the target. The four-inch version of the Stokes Mortar was primarily used to fire smoke, gas and thermite rounds.

One of 188 photographs taken by Lieutenant Patrick Robert Koekkoek, Special Brigade, Royal Engineers.

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 2002-02-902-39

Copyright/Ownership

Copyright: Artist's Estate

Location

National Army Museum, Study Collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2002-02-902-39