b/w printphotograph

Photographic print (b/w); view of a destroyed enemy trench, with a Turkish field gun amongst the debris; Middle East, 1916-1918. Apparently the wreckage of a Turkish 9 centimetre field gun. A C/73/88 or C/ 73/91 supplied by Krupp from the 1870's onwards it fired a 6.85 kilogram shell to 6,000 metres. By the First World War it was obsolete, having no recoil system. Germany continued to supply its ally with more modern pieces until the war's end. An example of an Ottoman Empire C/73 gun, captured by the British in Egypt in 1882, is displayed at Fort Nelson, Portsmouth. (The strap hanging from the barrel retained the leather muzzle -cover.)