Firing a trench mortar

New Zealand gunners load a 6-inch Newton medium trench mortar near Colincamps during the German spring offensive on the Western Front, March-April 1918. The Newton mortar could fire eight 24 kilogram bombs a minute out to a range of 1700 metres. They were used by the New Zealand Division's medium trench mortar batteries from December 1917.

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Keywords

WW1

western front

trenches

artillery

weapons

Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Reference: 1/2-013122-G
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