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File:NYT - Big British gun going to its position.jpg

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Photograph of a British heavy naval gun being moved on special trailer, Western Front. New York Times caption of 18 January 1918 reads : "Battery of British heavy field pieces and their crews on the roadside near Neuville Vitasse, British West Front."

The caption about Neuville Vitasse (S.E. of Arras) would be for propaganda and deception purposes.

In fact the gun appears to be a BL 7.5 inch Mk III naval gun from the decommissioned battleship HMS Swiftsure (1903), being moved into position along the coast in Flanders, 1917.

It is being towed by a 105 horsepower Daimler-Foster tractor, and is on an 8-wheeled truck designed by Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon for moving 12 inch naval gun carriages, and built by Foster's.
Date circa 1917
date QS:P,+1917-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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New York Times of Sunday 13 January 1918


Downloaded from Library of Congress archive of WWI newspaper rotogravure pages : http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures
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Ernest Brooks  (1878–1958)  wikidata:Q5392825
 
Ernest Brooks
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E. "Baby" Brooks
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Date of birth/death 23 February 1878 Edit this at Wikidata 1958 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Faringdon Hendon
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