25 pounder artillery gun Black & White Stock Photos
RMW7WXEX–Army Learner Driver Training in a Bedford RL Towing a 25 pounder Field Gun, 1950s
RM2X1N4ET–THE ALLIED ARMIES IN BRITAIN, 1940-1945 - A Polish gunner attached to the 229th Field Battery of the 58th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery chatting with one of the British gunners to improve his knowledge of the English language by their 25 pounder artillery gun, 25 August 1940. Photograph taken during an exercise between Northland and Southland armies near Bawtry, British Army, British Army, Royal Artillery, Polish Army, Polish Armed Forces in the West, 1st Corps
RM2JAR06R–25 pounder field gun of the 2/3 Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery being emplaced at Boram Strip near Wewak, New Guinea ca. 1945
RME7NNTW–Tunisia. Bishop 25 pounder self-propelled guns in action near Grenadier Hill, 23 March 1943.
RMB42JJJ–events, Second World War / WWII, North Africa, Tunisia, British 25 pounder field gun in action on the Djebel Bargu Front, 31.1.1943,
RM2GNB2EY–This 300-pounder rifle was directed against Fort Sumter and Battery Wagner. The length of bore of the gun before it burst was 13G inches. It weighed 26,000 pounds. It fired a projectile weighing 250 pounds, with a maximum charge of powder of 25 pounds. The gun was fractured at the twenty-seventh round by a shell bursting in the muzzle, blowing off about 20 inches of the barrel. After the bursting the gun was "chipped" back beyond the termination of the fracture and afterwards fired 371 rounds with as good results as before the injury. At the end of that time the muzzle began to crack
RMBBNGPH–events, Second World War / WWII, Pacific, New Guinea, Australian soldiers of the 7th Division bringing 25 pounder guns with horses over the Owen Stanley Ridge, Papua, late 1942,
RM2X15MNT–THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE TUNISIA CAMPAIGN, NOVEMBER 1942-MAY 1943 - Crew of a 25 pounder artillery gun taking advantage of a lull to wash down their gun and ammunition carrier at Siliana, 31 January 1943. Troops of the 6th Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment (78th Infantry Division) arrived at Siliana (Djebel-Bargou Front) and moved through Robba to relieve a French unit in the line. They started to advance and continued to do so the following day. 'C' Company carried on the advance and maintained contact with the Italians and after a severe pounding by 25 pounder artillery guns t
RM2X165F9–THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE TUNISIA CAMPAIGN, NOVEMBER 1942-MAY 1943 - A 25 pounder artillery gun of the Royal Artillery in action on the Djebel-Bargou front, 31 January 1943. Troops of the 6th Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment (78th Infantry Division) arrived at Siliana (Djebel-Bargou Front) and moved through Robba to relieve a French unit in the line. They started to advance and continued to do so the following day. 'C' Company carried on the advance and maintained contact with the Italians and after a severe pounding by 25 pounder artillery guns the enemy again retreated and on
RM2X15WKF–A FIELD REGIMENT, ROYAL ARTILLERY,ON THE RANGES - The 25-pounder gun being loaded British Army
RM2X1N4RM–HIS MAJESTY THE KING VISITS INVASION TROOPS - His Majesty watching a 25-pounder gun detachment of divisional Artillery in action, British Army
RM2T1K9DG–The British Army in Cyprus 1941 A 25-pounder field gun in action during artillery exercises in Cyprus, 23 September 1941.
RM2T1M5W2–The British Army in North Africa 1941 The crew of a 25-pounder gun in Tobruk, 18 November 1941. They are members of the Royal Horse Artillery.
RM2T1M8AB–A CMP Field Artillery Tractor of the 9th Australian Division pulls a 25 pounder field gun up into position during the First Battle of El Alamein, 9 July 1942
RM2T1FXDB–The British Occupation of Java A 25 pounder field gun of the Berkshire Yeomanry prepares to open fire near Surabaya (Soerabaja). Here the Berkshires provided artillery support to Indian infantry holding the perimeter line around the town.
RM2X15XFC–THE POLISH ARMY IN BRITAIN, 1940-1947 - Detachment of the 1st Polish Corps artillery manhandling a 25 pounder gun during an Allied Services Tournament of the Eastern Command in Rugby Football Ground at Bedford British Army, Polish Army, Eastern Command, Polish Armed Forces in the West, 1st Corps
RM2T1KKNA–Girl Gunners- the work of the Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Experimental Station, Shoeburyness, Essex, England, 1943 17 year old Private Edith Jackson loads a 25 pounder shell into an anti-aircraft gun at the Royal Artillery experimental station at Shoeburyness, Essex. The shells were fired into the sea at high tide. According to the original caption, Edith worked in a dairy before the war, filling milk bottles. Comment : this appears to show a QF 25-pounder field gun, not an anti-aircraft gun.
RM2X14CTW–THE POLISH ARMY IN THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN, 1943-1945 - Gunners of the 2nd Battery, 1st Carpathian Light Artillery Regiment (3rd Carpathian Rifles Division, 2nd Polish Corps)manning a Ordnance QF 25 pounder gun in Rionero in Vulture area, 10 February 1944 Polish Army, Polish Armed Forces in the West, Polish Corps, II, Polish Armed Forces in the West, Carpathian Rifles Divisior, 3, Polish Armed Forces in the West, 2nd Corps, 3rd Carpathian Rifles Division, 1st Carpathian Light Artillery Regiment
RM2X166D0–THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE TUNISIA CAMPAIGN, NOVEMBER 1942-MAY 1943 - Troops of the 6th Battalion manning a new Vickers water-cooled machine gun at Siliana, 31 January 1943. Troops of the 6th Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment (78th Infantry Division) arrived at Siliana (Djebel-Bargou Front) and moved through Robba to relieve a French unit in the line. They started to advance and continued to do so the following day. 'C' Company carried on the advance and maintained contact with the Italians and after a severe pounding by 25 pounder artillery guns the enemy again retreated and on 2
RM2X16FYK–THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE TUNISIA CAMPAIGN, NOVEMBER 1942-MAY 1943 - An Italian 4.7 cm (Cannone da 47/32 M35) anti-tank gun with a breech and barrel missing, captured at Siliana, 31 January 1943. Troops of the 6th Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment (78th Infantry Division) arrived at Siliana (Djebel-Bargou Front) and moved through Robba to relieve a French unit in the line. They started to advance and continued to do so the following day. 'C' Company carried on the advance and maintained contact with the Italians and after a severe pounding by 25 pounder artillery guns the enemy a
RM2X1MT6E–THE POLISH ARMY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1942-1943 - Ordnance QF 25 pounder gun towed by a Morris Commercial C8 Field Artillery Tractor (Quad) passing by a stage where General Władysław Sikorski, the Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces, is watching a parade of one of the units of the 5th Wilno Infantry Division, at their camp around Kirkuk. Photograph taken during General Władysław Sikorski's official tour in Iraq, Polish Army, Polish Armed Forces in the West, Polish Corps, II, Polish Armed Forces in the West, Polish Army in the Soviet Union, 5th 'Wilno' Infantry Division, Sikorski, Włady
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