SURVIVING GUN FILE
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Germany |
 Heavy artillery |
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Contribution : Charlie Clelland Nick Hector |
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Location : Australia Jamestown, SA Memorial |
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This strange howitzer is the 1907 Krupp prototype designed for the future 15cm sFH 13 (that will be an hybrid between the Krupp and the RheinMetall protos tested in 1911), 4 of its kind being sold to Turkey in 1912. There are to surviving specimens, both captured in Palestine by the Australian Light Horse in 1917 or 1918. . |
This Jamestown gun (serial Nr 20) identification (as for the Canberra gun - serial Nr 19) needed the help of several specialists. |
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