File:6inchMkVIIGunColouredPostcardWWI.jpg

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Colourised British propaganda postcard showing a BL 6 inch Gun Mk VII at full recoil after firing, World War I. From Official War Photographs Series 1, No. 4. Distributed by the Daily Mail.
The gunner on the left is opening a cartridge container.
Text read : The heavy gun on the British Western front seen in action is a unit in the tremendous siege which we are making - "not on a place, but on the German Army."
See also File:BL6inchGunMk7.jpg


Comment : This is at Reningelst, Flanders.
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Source Downloaded from http://www.chakoten.dk/cgi-bin/fm.cgi?n=726 , Danish Military History Society website.
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Ernest Brooks  (1878–1958)  wikidata:Q5392825
 
Ernest Brooks
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E. "Baby" Brooks
Description British photographer
Date of birth/death 23 February 1878 Edit this at Wikidata 1958 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Faringdon Hendon
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