SURVIVING GUN FILE

Contribution :

Oliver Keeble

Location :

Uganda

Entebbe

Monument offered by Idi Amin Dada

This rare gun, in a very good preservation state, is now integrated in a strange monument offered by the 'beloved' President Idi Amin Dada to the Ugandese people after the Tzahal raid on Entebbe in 1976.

This political exploitation of a probable British Empire war trophy explains the anachronic presence of bronze Ugandese warriors on its sides

Rear view - zoom on the breech markings "Nr 103 - FRIED KRUPP AG ESSEN - 1917" .