File:NLS Haig - Heavy gun in action.jpg

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English: Australian soldiers in action, Western Front, during World War I. This photograph of Australian troops shows four or five teams of horses racing towards a field gun. Each team consists of six horses pulling what appear to be ammunition limbers. The field gun would be back behind the trenches and firing over the top of them, so it would appear that the horse teams are returning from the front-line trenches.

The Australians put 322,000 soldiers into World War I, of whom 60,000 were killed and 280,000 casualties. The Australian Imperial Force and the New Zealand Army Corps fought together under the title ANZAC.
British QF 4.7 inch Gun on 1900 Mk I "Woolwich" carriage, Western Front, World War I.
AWM caption : "Picardie, Somme Pozieres. Australian transport limbers returning down Sausage Valley gallop past a battery of British 4.7 inch quick firing (QF) field guns." [Original reads: 'A scene within the Australian lines. A heavy gun in action.']

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Date circa July - August 1916
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This image is available from the National Library of Scotland You can see this image in its original context, along with the rest of the Library's digital collections, under digital.nls.uk/74549600 in the NLS Digital Gallery

From the papers of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928).
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  • World War One official British photographs
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  • nls:dodid 74549600
  • nls:derivative 74408974
  • nls:dodprojectid 74462370
  • Photographic prints
  • Belgium
  • Black-and-white prints (photographs)
  • Horses
  • Propaganda
  • Shooting
  • War photography
  • Field artillery
  • Photojournalism
  • Artillery (Troops)
  • World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Western Front
  • organization:library nationallibraryofscotland
  • owner:name nationallibraryofscotland
  • nls:source solrxml
  • ww1
  • wwi
  • world war one
  • great war
  • 1914-1918
  • great
  • war
  • The Great War
  • First World War
  • World War I
  • Australians
  • soldiers
  • troops
  • gun
  • field gun
  • ANZAC
  • Australian Imperial Force and the New Zealand Army Corps
  • gun carriage
Camera location46° 42′ 38.41″ N, 1° 43′ 05.48″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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15:19, 5 October 2007Thumbnail for version as of 15:19, 5 October 2007800 × 501 (133 KB)Rcbutcher{{Information |Description=British QF 4.7 inch Gun on 1900 "Woolwich", Western Front. <br>It is being passed by what appear to be field gun ammunition wagons returning to the rear, presumably for more ammunition. <br>Note attachmen
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