British Western Front
(138) X.34064 - Store of our big mortars in a captured trench
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > British Western Front > (138) X.34064 - Store of our big mortars in a captured trench |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549520 |
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| Description | Mortars in a trench. The mortars consist of cast-iron spheres with a long solid tail unit. These appear quite large, and are of the 'toffee apple' type , originally designed by Vickers. They are quite different from the more usual Stokes mortar bombs, which were cylindrical. Mortar bombs were designed to be fired at a steep angle, so that they could drop down into the enemy trenches. They could be fired from fairly light and manoeuvrable mortars which looked like metal tubes with a firing pin inside. The bombs, which were dropped into the tube, had a percussive charge which detonated when it hit the firing pin and projected them into the air. [Original reads: 'A store of our big mortars in a captured trench.'] |
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| Description | Photographs, all taken on the British Western Front, that are not attributed to a particular photographer. |
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| Description | Black-and-white photographs mainly of the Western Front during the First World War. Official British war photographers took many of them for propaganda purposes. Unless otherwise stated, titles are the photographs' original captions. From the papers of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928). The Haig Papers also contain Douglas Haig’s diaries. |
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| Shelfmark | Acc.3155 |
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