New Zealand Artillery in action, 1917 (c)

Photograph, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918).

Members of the Royal New Zealand Artillery prepare to fire 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).

One of 193 British and Allied official photographs taken on the Western Front.