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"15 pr 7 cwt BL on Mk III carriage - note the tangent sight mounted above the breech, and the elevating screw. This method of elevation had been in use for over 200 years".


Comment : This appears to be a Boer propaganda photograph, with Boer commandos posing with a captured British gun.
Date Second Boer War circa. 1899-1900
Source Major Darrell D. Hall, "Guns in South Africa 1899-1902" in The South African Military History Society. Military History Journal - Vol 2 No 1, June 1971
Author Transvaal Republic war photographer ? (predecessor state to Union of South Africa)
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