A spent 240 mm trench mortar projectile, La Boisselle, July 1916
Photograph by Lieutenant Patrick Koekkoek, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), 1916.
A British officer poses with part of a 240 mm trench mortar shell. Large calibre weapons like this were used to bombard strongly protected targets such as dug-outs, covered sheLieutenanters, command posts and pill-boxes.
One of 188 photographs taken by Lieutenant Patrick Robert Koekkoek, Special Bde, Royal Engineers.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 2002-02-902-90
Copyright/Ownership
Copyright: Artist's Estate
Location
National Army Museum, Study Collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2002-02-902-90