File:60 pounder BM Mk1 (39527305111).jpg
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This Heavy Field Gun served with the with the Royal Garrison Artillery in Mesopotamia, an area which now includes Iraq, Kuwait and parts of Syria, Turkey and lran. The type was used by the British Army in all main theatres of the First World War.
It was in service with the 2/104th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery That Battery was present at the fall of Kut-al-Amara and Baghdad in 1917, and also took part in the battles of Shatt-al-Adhaim, and of lnstanbul, again in 1917. Later operations included the capture of Kitri and of Kizil Robat in 1918.
It was designed to be horse-drawn or vehicle-towed, and served throughout the First World War in all the main theatres. lf remained in service with British and Commonwealth forces during the inter-war period, and was in front line service with British and South African gun batteries during the Second World War until 1942. Alter retuming to the UK and being withdrawn from British Army service, this gun was presented to the Imperial War Museum by the Royal Artillery in 1923. |
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Source | 60 pounder BM Mk1 |
Author | Falcon® Photography from France, France |
Camera location | 52° 05′ 45.03″ N, 0° 07′ 59.4″ E ![]() | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | ![]() |
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Camera manufacturer | SONY |
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Camera model | ILCE-7M2 |
Exposure time | 1/50 sec (0.02) |
F-number | f/5.6 |
ISO speed rating | 125 |
Date and time of data generation | 12:35, 9 July 2017 |
Lens focal length | 21 mm |
Horizontal resolution | 240 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 240 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.5.1 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 23:07, 3 January 2018 |
Exposure Program | Manual |
Exif version | 2.3 |
Date and time of digitizing | 12:35, 9 July 2017 |
APEX shutter speed | 5.643856 |
APEX aperture | 4.970854 |
APEX brightness | 1.82578125 |
APEX exposure bias | 0 |
Maximum land aperture | 4 APEX (f/4) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Light source | Unknown |
Flash | Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression |
Color space | sRGB |
Focal plane X resolution | 1,675.2573852539 |
Focal plane Y resolution | 1,675.2573852539 |
Focal plane resolution unit | 3 |
File source | Digital still camera |
Scene type | A directly photographed image |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Manual exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Digital zoom ratio | 1 |
Focal length in 35 mm film | 21 mm |
Scene capture type | Standard |
Contrast | Normal |
Saturation | Normal |
Sharpness | Normal |
Lens used | FE 16-35mm F4 ZA OSS |
Date metadata was last modified | 00:07, 4 January 2018 |
Unique ID of original document | 50F015AB2383641CEAA05E220DCBA25B |
IIM version | 4 |