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Does anyone know where I can obtain any photos of a 4.5 Howitzer in action/ position on the western front?

Ypres area if possible

Julian

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Does anyone know where I can obtain any photos of a 4.5 Howitzer in action/ position on the western front?

Ypres area if possible

Julian

Julian,

Here a 4 photographs of the British 4.5 Howitzer in action during WW1 :-

No. 1 " Gunners of the Royal Field Artillery, have a cigarette break at a 4.5 inch howitzer emplacement at Thiepval in September 1916. Note the ready 4.5 inch shells, with No 101 Fuzes."

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" 4.5 inch howitzers of the Royal Field Artillery on the outskirts of Arras (Bandstand, Jardin Public), April 1917. "

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' The 112th (4.5) Howitzer Battery of the Australian Field Artillery in action in a wheat field at Villers-Bretonneux in the morning of the advance on 8 August 1918. "


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" A 4.5-inch Howitzer of 'C' Battery, CXVII (Howitzer) Brigade, firing from a hilltop position probably in the 'Birdcage' defence line north of the city of Salonika. "



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Excellent thank you

My grandfather was a 2nd Lieutenant in D battery 291 Brigade who I believe had 4.5 howitzers

Julian

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