World war one weapons

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Mark 9 Depth Charge as ready to fire on a Mark 6 K-gun

A combined tank and infantry attack at Bapaume(http://www.firstworldwar.com/pho tos/tanks.htm)

flame thrower


British soldiers - victims of a poison gas attack

Men fixing their bayonets before going 'over the top'.

armoured car


moveable machine gun

U.S. Springfield

The pistol, originally designed as a cavalry weapon, was the staple weapon for a variety of personnel during World War One (and beyond). Traditionally issued to officers of all armies the pistol was also issued to military police, airmen and tank operators.

Great Austrian Skoda gun which fired a 12-inch shell


As with the grenade the mortar was yet another old weapon which found a new lease of life during World War One.

The Vickers Gun, closely modelled on the Maxim Gun, comprised the British Army's standard heavy machine gun at the start of the First World War, following its formal adoption in 1912.

Spandau Gun - otherwise known as the Maxim LMG 08/15 and nicknamed "the Devil's paint brush' - was deployed by the German air service as a replacement for the Parabellum Gun.

Designed in the United States in 1911 by U.S. Army Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis (and based upon an earlier overlycomplex design by Samuel McLean), the Lewis gun comprised an early light machine gun widely adopted by British and Empire forces from 1915 onwards.


Deployed in the final year of World War I, the Browning Automatic Rifle (or BAR) was effectively a form of light machine gun.

The French army's standard heavy tripod mounted machine gun throughout the war was the Hotchkiss 8mm M1914 machine gun. Although it proved reliable in use it was unquestionably heavy at 23kg (40kg with its mounting). Initially adopted in 1900 a number of models were produced until a gas-powered, air-cooled model was unveiled in 1914.

Although the name was commonly applied to a whole variety of large-calibre German artillery guns the "Big Bertha" ('Dicke Berta') actually referred to a single siege gun, at that time the world's largest and most powerful.

Below is shown the M-ger채t in disassembled transport state, from left to right: barrel, lavette, cradle and earth spade, general equipment and finally the bedding ("bettung"). It was thus transported in five, tractor-pulled special wagons.



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