Vintage Photographs - Artillery
This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war. Specifically this sub-section contains photos of artillery developed and deployed during wartime.
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The photos reproduced below are in thumbnail format - simply click a given photograph to view a larger copy within a separate window.
 Bringing
up a Belgian field gun, 1914
(CNP) |
 Great
Austrian Skoda gun which fired a 12-inch shell
(CNP) |
 Generals
Foch and Fayolle examining German 77's
(CNP) |
 Battery
of anti-aircraft guns near Kupa, Macedonia
(CNP) |
 Yale
artillery companies with a battery of 75's
(CNP) |
 Artillery
at the Officers' Training Camp, Plattsburg, N.Y.
(CNP) |
 Moving
artillery in the Alps
(CNP) |
 British
artillery hammering the German lines
(CNP) |
 Finding
the range for the 75's
(CNP) |
 Camouflaged
artillery post
(CNP) |
 Loading
a big coast-defence gun
(CNP) |
 Australian
artillery ready for battle
(CNP) |
 Learning
a French quick-firing gun
(CNP) |
 First
Virginia field artillery at drill
(CNP) |
 British
Tommies pulling a field gun out of the mud
(CNP) |
 Moving
a French gun on the Somme battle front
(CNP) |
 French
artillery after fighting through a gas attack
(CNP) |
 400
millimetre gun in action
(CNP) |
 Lengthwise
view of 400 millimetre gun and its machinery
(CNP) |
 Large
French mortar just after discharge
(CNP) |
 French
soldier discharging 'Crapouillots'
(CNP) |
 Armoured
train with a gun turret
(CNP) |
 Front
view of a gun position
(CNP) |
 Bringing
up shells on a narrow-guage railroad
(CNP) |
 Motor-mounted
gun in a camouflaged position
(CNP) |
 Ammunition
depot, where shells for 75's are concealed
(CNP) |
 Camouflaged
battery in Belgium
(CNP) |
 French
gun pounding enemy lines in the Vosges
(CNP) |
 Moving
great shells in a camouflaged position
(CNP) |
 Great
supply of shells close to the firing lines
(CNP) |
 Revolving
turret and gun on an armoured train
(CNP) |
 Huge
French gun in camouflaged position in Italy
(CNP) |
 Thoroughly
concealed artillery position
(CNP) |
 Workmen
completing a 20-inch French gun
(CNP) |
 British
field artillery
(MF) |
 King George V
in a gun-pit
(MF) |
 British
artillery piece
(MF) |
 French
artillery men in boats, 1915
(MF) |
 French
people with artillery shell
(MF) |
 Russian
artillery
(CPE) |
 Moving
a French 75mm gun
(CPE) |
 Moving
a German gun
(CPE) |
 Austrian
field artillery in Russia
(CPE) |
 Germans
refortifying Antwerp, 1914
(CPE) |
 Wreckage
of a Brussels fort, 1914
(CPE) |
 Gun
destroyed by Japanese shell at Bismarck Fort, Tsing-tau
(CPE) |
 Japanaese
bombardment at Tsing-tau
(CPE) |
 German
battery in the snows of Poland
(CPE) |
 French
220mm cannon, 1914
(MF) |
 Australian
heavy gun at work
(MF) |
 Hot
work for the Australian gunners
(MF) |
 Loading
a trench mortar
(MF) |
 Tractor
for transporting British guns
(CPE) |
 Serving
a gun on a British armoured train
(CPE) |
 Range
finder or telemeter
(CPE) |
 A
large German 8-inch gun in action
(CPE) |
 A
captured Russian cannon
(CPE) |
 Work
of an Austrian siege gun, the Skoda
(CPE) |
 A
large Italian 8.2 inch mortar
(CPE) |
 Italian
batteries at nightfall in the Isonzo
(CPE) |
 German
anti-aircarft gun mounted on a turntable
(CPE) |
 Italian
battery in a protected position
(CPE) |
 Italian
artillerymen pulling a gun to a vantage point
(CPE) |
 French
artillery in the Battle of Champagne
(CPE) |
 British
artillery at Gallipoli on Cape Helles
(CPE) |
 Bursting
shell which killed the photographer (visible at bottom)
(CPE) |
 An
Austrian siege gun in Serbia
(CPE) |
 British
soldiers hoisting the shell for a giant gun
(CPE) |
 Guns
in a captured Romanian fortress, 1916
(CPE) |
 Platform
and mechanism of a well-placed mortar
(CPE) |
 British
gunners who have sighted German aircraft
(CPE) |
 Anzac
artillery in the Battle of the Somme, 1916
(CPE) |
 French
guns passing on a road in the Verdun battlefield
(CPE) |
 A
German 380-mm shell striking a house in Verdun
(CPE) |
 Italian
gun on a mountain-top fighting for the Trentino
(CPE) |
 Bringing
up the French 75's in the fighting on the Somme
(CPE) |
 Russian
artillery and cavalry in the Carpathians
(CPE) |
 Turkish
18-pounder Krupp gun captured by British Indians
(CPE) |
 A
huge British mortar
(CNP) |
 Big
British mortar in position near the Somme
(CNP) |
 Captured
German artillery on show in Paris after the war
(SR) |
 Stylised
sketch of use of heavy duty tractors to pull guns
(SR) |
 Belgian
artillery in Flanders, early 1914
(SR) |
 French
artillery pounding the German lines
(SR) |
 Belgian
field guns in the Battle of Hofstade
(WW) |
 Italian
heavy howitzer used against Germans on the Piave
(WW) |
 Hauling
Italian big guns up Mount Grappa
(WW) |
 Italian
gun being brought across a Trentino Alps valley by cable
(WW) |
 Shrapnel
shells being capped with time fuses at Bethlehem Steel Works
(WW) |
 Tons
of metal ready to be placed within shells
(WW) |
 Pounding
a big gun into shape at Bethlehem Steel Works
(WW) |
 Members
of U.S. field artillery grooming their horses
(WW) |
 U.S.
artillery in France
(WW) |
 British
gun sinking on the roadside
(WW) |
 British
gun after firing
(WW) |
 Effects
of a high explosive shell
(WW) |
 Heavy
French artillery
(WW) |
 British
gunners working a 6-inch Howitzer battery
(WW) |
 British
sending shells behind German lines on the Western Front
(WW) |
 British
Royal Horse Artillery approaching a battery position
(WW) |
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A 'Woolly Bear' comprised a German shrapnel shell, which burst with a cloud-like explosion.
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