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Mortar practice, 1943

Photograph by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, Italy, 1943.

Two British soldiers fire a two-inch mortar during an exercise on Sicily prior to the Allied invasion of Italy. The standard version of the two-inch mortar had a barrel length of 21 inches and could fire a high explosive bomb weighing 2.25lb to a range of 500 yards.

From a photograph album containing 246 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 1975-03-63-14-97

Copyright/Ownership

National Army Museum Copyright

Location

National Army Museum, Study collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1975-03-63-14-97