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3.7 inch Light Trench Mortar in action on the Salonika Front, 1915 (c)
Lantern slide, World War One, Salonika (1914-1918), 1915 (c).
The 3.7 inch was one of the earliest trench mortars used by the British. It was fired by a length of fuze. The firer would then quickly take cover as the device was unreliable owing to the barrel often bursting. From mid-1916 it was gradually replaced by the superior 3-inch Stokes Mortar.
From a box of 50 lantern slides.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1978-11-157-29-40
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1978-11-157-29-40