SURVIVING GUN FILE

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Germany

Heavy artillery

280 mm Railway Gun L/40

Contribution :

Sly

Artillery blog link

Location :

Australia

Canberra

National War Memorial

This Railway heavy gun was vaptured by the Australian 5th Division on August 8th 1918, in Harbonnieres.

The entire gun was bring back to Australia, but the craddle was used for tests by the Army. The tube only is surviving nowadays..

An old picture of the captured gun in Australia, before the craddle and the tube were separated for the tests.