Sunday, November 22, 2020

A British soldier fusing mortar ammunition in a trench in Mesopotamia, WWI


 

6 comments:

  1. Dang! Now there is a job I would pass on!

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  2. Fuses are always tricky. But they were a lot trickier 100 years ago than they are now.

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  3. That is one hell of mortar. Says the former 11C20 Mortar man.

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  4. Fuses! Sweat clearing a misfire from that tube!

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  5. I believe those are gas shells.

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