Light Artillery Shell
Title |
Light Artillery Shell
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Subject |
Rowlands, Edward
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Notes |
Have two identical shells, ca. 170mm long (including projectile head, itself about 40mm diameter, 108mm length) brass shell casing 94mm length, 44mm diamter at the firing pin lipped end,
Inscribed: Sgt Major E. Rowlands [Edward Rowlands, my grandfather] 115 Trench Mortar Bater[y] [polished, unclear] TRECH [assumed to be surname of maker, German POW?] |
Item date |
January 1917
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Creation place |
Somme
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Item source | |
Item medium | |
Content | |
Total number of pages |
3
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Cataloguer |
Everett Sharp
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Copyright |
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
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Digital repository | |
Contributor name |
John Rowlands
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Collection
Citation
“Light Artillery Shell,” The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed May 21, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/8917.
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