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SURVIVING GUN FILE (# 185)
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Belgium
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Light artillery
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Contributor :
Bernard Plumier      http://www.passioncompassion1418.com
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Location :
Belgium Brussels Musée Royal de l'Armée
Coordinates :
Lat : 50.84410 / Long : 4.39480
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General comments on this surviving gun :
Identical items in the same location :
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Items covered by this file : 1 |
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This gun did not participate to WW1 as a Belgian weapon despite the markings on the shield, but its components probably did as a German gun |
Breech markings : "n°28 - M28 - Gs127 - Rh. M." |
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Historic and technical information
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Denomination :     7c5 GP III | Origin :       ( A.C.M.A.)             ( Cockerill )             ( Krupp ) | ||||
Historic context :
With the transformation of the conflict into a position war fromthe end of 1914, the characteristics of the field artillery guns designed for flat trajectory fire at sight and good mobility became less adapted to the new needs of the battlefield. The Belgian engineers of the Ateliers de Construction de Matériel d'Artillerie regrouped in Le Havre, in France, started to work on the design of a new gun, based on the very good German 7.7cm FK 16 fieldgun, using numerous elements of the captured German guns and able to shoot the French 7mm Mle 1897 ammunition. The first tests only took place in spring 1918.
Produced in 318 items, this latter model became, side to side with the Krupp origin 75 mm TR/TRA 1905, the backbone of the Belgian fieldartillery until 1940. Numerous guns were captured and used by the Wehrmacht afterwards. |
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