File:Six inch Howitzer in action in the sweltering heat on the Western front (4688636390).jpg

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English: Howitzer being fired, Western Front, Summer 1918. This is one of two photographs of the same subject attributed to the photographer Tom Aitken; the other being titled 'Howitzer being loaded'. This shows the gun being fired with all the gunners standing well back. This must have been taken in the summer of 1918, the only summer that Aitken was at the Front.

The shell of this six-inch howitzer weighed 100lbs (45 kilos) and had a range of between 10,000 and 11,600 yards (9,000 -10,600 metres).
[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. A six inch Howitzer in action in the sweltering heat on the Western front.']

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