52571: Post card photo of a captured German field gun

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posted on 2024-02-23, 13:34 authored by Great War Archive Project Team

This German field gun was captured at Loos in September 1915. According to a local history book 'Aspects of Spalding' by Leveritt and Elsden "The gun was brought to Spalding on 23rd March 1916. Large crowds assembled at the railway station, and in the Market Place to see it arrive. The gun weighing one ton . . . remained on display in Spalding for one month before being taken to Leek in Staffordshire"

History

Identifier

3017.jpg| GWA_1129_5_Gun.jpg|

Creator

Unknown

Date

23rd March 1916

Date Created

23/03/1916

Source

Postcard

Medium

Card

Type

Photograph

Contributor

Everett Sharp | Jennifer Bangs

Rights

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford