Photograph of German 21 cm mortar (2)
Page description
| Title |
Photograph of German 21 cm mortar (2)
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|---|---|
| Author |
Pearson, Leonard Thomas
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| Notes |
Photograph of a German 21 cm (8") heavy mortar in Ypres square with other captured artillery pieces. The barrel has been withdrawn for transport; the overhanging lump is the recoil dampening mechanism.
Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph. |
| Item date |
1919
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| Creation place |
Ypres
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| Item source | |
| Item medium | |
| Content | |
| Page number |
2
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| Total number of pages |
2
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| Cataloguer |
Richard Marshall
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| Filename |
GWA_2485_ricemortar2.jpg
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| Copyright |
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
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| Digital repository | |
| Contributor name |
Stuart Lee
|
| Contributed on the behalf of |
P Vainker
|
Collection
Citation
“Photograph of German 21 cm mortar,” First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed May 19, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/5702.
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Document description
| Title |
Photograph of German 21 cm mortar
|
|---|---|
| Author |
Pearson, Leonard Thomas
|
| Notes |
Photograph of a German 21 cm (8") heavy mortar in Ypres square with other captured artillery pieces. The barrel has been withdrawn for transport; the overhanging lump is the recoil dampening mechanism.
Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph. |
| Item date |
1919
|
| Creation place |
Ypres
|
| Item source | |
| Item medium | |
| Content | |
| Total number of pages |
2
|
| Cataloguer |
Richard Marshall
|
| Copyright |
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
|
| Digital repository | |
| Contributor name |
Stuart Lee
|
| Contributed on the behalf of |
P Vainker
|
Citation
“Photograph of German 21 cm mortar,” First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed May 19, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/5702.
