Captured Great War Artillery

[ph0ebus]

The Passion Compassion website is run by Bernard Plumier - the main website is www.passioncompassion1418.com. Bernard also runs a blog where he puts up recently reported guns:

http://canonspgmww1guns.canalblog.com/. You report guns at the email address: webmaster@passioncompassion1418.com

The gun above is a 7.7cm Feldkanone M1896 neuer Art (in full) - the first 4500 (or so) of these were upgraded with a recoil system in 1906/7. You can always pick the updated guns because they have

two lines of text inscribed below the loading port on the breech ring:

Typical is:

gef. 1898 Fr.Kp. (created 1898 Krupp)

abg. 1907 Gr.Sp. (modified 1907 Spandau)

The FK 96 n.A is a fairly common trophy gun - there are 9 survivors in Qld, Australia and perhaps 30+ around Australia.

Regards,

Charlie

That is indeed the site...a great effort. Thanks for also mentioning the blog, I had somehow missed that.

-Daniel