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BL 60-pounder gun

Index BL 60-pounder gun

The Ordnance BL 60-pounder was a British 5 inch (127 mm) heavy field gun designed in 1903–05 to provide a new capability that had been partially met by the interim QF 4.7 inch Gun. [1]

54 relations: Amatol, Armstrong Whitworth, BL 4.5-inch Medium Field Gun, Bloomingdale, New Jersey, British Expeditionary Force (World War I), Cairo, Illinois, CFB Shilo, Cordite, Counter-battery fire, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Ernest Brooks (photographer), Field gun, Gallipoli Campaign, Gun Carrier Mark I, Gun laying, Historical Military Museum of Cartagena (Spain), Holt tractor, Horse, Ian V. Hogg, Illinois, Imperial War Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, Libyan Desert, List of field guns, London, Martin Farndale, Medina, New York, Mesopotamian campaign, Minnesota, National World War I Museum and Memorial, New Jersey, Newport News, Virginia, Noel Birch, Ohio, Polish Army Museum, Pound (mass), QF 4.7-inch Gun Mk I–IV, Rittman, Ohio, Royal Canadian Artillery Museum, Royal Garrison Artillery, Russian Empire, Second Boer War, Shrapnel shell, Sinai and Palestine Campaign, South Dakota, Soviet Union, Springfield, South Dakota, Tonne, Traction engine, Treatise on Ammunition, ..., Virginia, Virginia War Museum, Warsaw, World War I. Expand index (4 more) »

Amatol

Amatol is a highly explosive material made from a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate.

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Armstrong Whitworth

Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century.

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BL 4.5-inch Medium Field Gun

The BL 4.5 inch Medium Gun was a British gun used by field artillery in the Second World War.

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Bloomingdale, New Jersey

Bloomingdale is a borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

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British Expeditionary Force (World War I)

The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the British Army sent to the Western Front during the First World War.

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Cairo, Illinois

Cairo is the southernmost city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and is the county seat of Alexander County.

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CFB Shilo

Canadian Forces Base Shilo (or CFB Shilo) is an Operations and Training base of the Canadian Forces, located east of Brandon, Manitoba.

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Cordite

* Cordite is a family of smokeless propellants developed and produced in the United Kingdom since 1889 to replace gunpowder as a military propellant.

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Counter-battery fire

Counter-battery fire (sometimes called counter-fire) is a battlefield military activity to defeat the enemy's indirect fire elements (guns, rocket launchers, artillery and mortars), including their target acquisition, command and control components.

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Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, (19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928), was a senior officer of the British Army.

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Ernest Brooks (photographer)

Ernest Brooks (23 February 1876 — 1957) was a British photographer, best known for his war photography from the First World War.

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Field gun

A field gun is a field artillery piece.

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Gallipoli Campaign

The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign, the Battle of Gallipoli, or the Battle of Çanakkale (Çanakkale Savaşı), was a campaign of the First World War that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula (Gelibolu in modern Turkey) in the Ottoman Empire between 17 February 1915 and 9 January 1916.

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Gun Carrier Mark I

The Gun Carrier Mark I was the first piece of self-propelled artillery ever to be produced, a British development from the First World War.

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Gun laying

Gun laying is the process of aiming an artillery piece, such as a gun, howitzer or mortar, on land or at sea, against surface or air targets.

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Historical Military Museum of Cartagena (Spain)

The Museo Histórico Militar de Cartagena (Historical Military Museum of Cartagena) is a military museum dedicated to Spanish Army History, and is located in Cartagena, Spain.

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Holt tractor

The Holt tractors were a range of continuous track haulers built by the Holt Manufacturing Company, which was named after Benjamin Holt.

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Horse

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''.

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Ian V. Hogg

Ian Vernon Hogg (1926 – 7 March 2002) was a British author of books on firearms, artillery, ammunition, and fortification, as well as biographies of several famous general officers.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Imperial War Museum

Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London.

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Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Libyan Desert

The Libyan Desert forms the northern and eastern part of the Sahara Desert.

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List of field guns

Field guns are one of two primary types of field artillery.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Martin Farndale

General Sir Martin Baker Farndale KCB (6 January 1929 – 10 May 2000) was a British Army General who reached high office in the 1980s.

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Medina, New York

Medina is a village in the Towns of Shelby and Ridgeway in Orleans County, New York, United States.

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Mesopotamian campaign

The Mesopotamian campaign was a campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I fought between the Allies represented by the British Empire, mostly troops from Britain, Australia and the British Indian, and the Central Powers, mostly of the Ottoman Empire.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.

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National World War I Museum and Memorial

The National World War I Museum and Memorial of the United States is located in Kansas City, Missouri.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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Newport News, Virginia

Newport News is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Noel Birch

General Sir James Frederick Noel Birch (29 December 1865 – 3 February 1939) was a British Artillery Officer during the Second Boer War and World War I and subsequently Master-General of the Ordnance.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Polish Army Museum

Museum of the Polish Army (Muzeum Wojska Polskiego) is a museum in Warsaw documenting the military aspects of the history of Poland.

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Pound (mass)

The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in the imperial, United States customary and other systems of measurement.

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QF 4.7-inch Gun Mk I–IV

The QF 4.7 inch Gun Mks I, II, III, and IVMk I.

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Rittman, Ohio

Rittman is a city in Medina and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Royal Canadian Artillery Museum

The Royal Canadian Artillery Museum, Canada’s National Artillery Museum, is a museum dedicated to telling the complete story of the more than 200,000 Canadian Gunners who have served Canada in war and peace since 1855.

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Royal Garrison Artillery

The Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) was formed in 1899 as a distinct arm of the British Army's Royal Regiment of Artillery serving alongside the other two arms of the Regiment, the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) and the Royal Horse Artillery (RHA).

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.

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Second Boer War

The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa.

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Shrapnel shell

Shrapnel shells were anti-personnel artillery munitions which carried a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejected them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.

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Sinai and Palestine Campaign

The Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I was fought between the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire, supported by the German Empire.

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South Dakota

South Dakota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Springfield, South Dakota

Springfield is a city in Bon Homme County, South Dakota, United States.

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Tonne

The tonne (Non-SI unit, symbol: t), commonly referred to as the metric ton in the United States, is a non-SI metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms;.

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Traction engine

A traction engine is a self-propelled steam engine used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location.

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Treatise on Ammunition

Treatise on Ammunition, from 1926 retitled Text Book of Ammunition, is a series of manuals detailing all British Empire military and naval service ammunition and associated equipment in use at the date of publication.

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Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Virginia War Museum

The Virginia War Museum is located in Huntington Park on Warwick Blvd., Newport News, Virginia.

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Warsaw

Warsaw (Warszawa; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BL_60-pounder_gun

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