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File:12inchRailwayHowitzerShell444SiegeBatteryAndKitten19July1918.jpg

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ANIMALS DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
An officer of 444 Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA), smokes a pipe as he supervises a kitten balancing on a 12 inch gun shell near Arras.
Comment : 444 Siege Battery operated 2 12 inch Mk V railway howitzers at the time. The officer is standing on the crew platform behind the breech.

See also File:Kitten on breech of 12 inch rilway howitzer 19071918 IWM Q 6873.jpg
Date Taken on 19 July 1918
Source
This photograph Q 6860 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 1900-13)
Author
John Warwick Brooke  (1886–1929)  wikidata:Q29267899
 
John Warwick Brooke
Alternative names
Warwick Brooke
Description British photographer
Date of birth/death 30 May 1886 Edit this at Wikidata 1929 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Uxbridge Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q29267899

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