www.passioncompassion1418.com
|
SURVIVING GUN FILE (# 677)
|
![]() Germany
|
|
![]() Mountain artillery
|
|||
Contributor :
Gilles Roland      http://vestiges.1914.1918.free.fr/
            |
Location :
United Kingdom London Imperial War Museum
Coordinates :
Lat : 51.49590 / Long : -0.10882
|
General comments on this surviving gun :
Identical items in the same location :
1
Items covered by this file : 1 |
|||
![]() |
|||||
Captured in South West Africa by the South African and Rhodesian troops in July 1915 |
|||||
Historic and technical information
|
|||||
Denomination :     7.5cm GebK L/17 M08 |
Origin :    
![]() |
||||
Historic context :
Designed by RheinMetall in 1908 as a first attempt to reach the German mountain guns market that used to be a monopole of Krupp until then, the '7.5cm GebirgsKanone L/17 M08' was a light weapon that could be disassembled into 5 separated loads for the transportation on animals. |
Technical data :
|
||||
Sources
|
|||||
|
|||||