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Diagram of Mk II star shell for British BL 10 pounder mountain gun, World War I.
Shell length 8.318 inches, diameter 2.73 inches, weight filled and fuzed 6 lb 15 oz.
Contains 10 stars, in 2 tiers of 5.
This shell has a 1 inch G.S. gauge fuze hole, and would typically use No. 25 Time Fuze.
Mk II has a 3 drams R.F.G.2 burster, and a primer of 15 grains of gunpowder in a shalloon bag in the central tube.


Mk III is similar, but has a 3 1/4 drams burster and no primer in the central tube.
Date details correct as at 1 August 1914
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Plate XXXI, Page 194, 197 in "Treatise on Ammunition" 10th Edition, 1915.


Facsimile reprint by Imperial War Museum and Naval & Military Press, 2003.
Author War Office, UK
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