QF 25 pounder
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The Ordnance QF 25 pounder (or just 25-pounder or 25-pdr) was the major British field gun/howitzer that was introduced into service just before World War II and was the British Army's primary artillery system into the 1950s.
 Morris-Commercial C8 'Quad' artillery tractor with limber and 25-pdr field gun, on an exercise in Scotland, 20 March 1941. |
 Morris-Commercial C8 'Quad' artillery tractor and 25-pdr field gun crossing a pontoon bridge at Slaght Bridge in Antrim, Northern Ireland, 26 June 1942. |
 25-pdr field gun of 153rd Field Regiment (Leicestershire Yeomanry) during a practice shoot in the mountains near Tripoli in the Lebanon, 7 June 1943. |
 25-pdrs of 430th Battery, 55th Field Regiment, near Hechtel in Belgium, firing in support of Guards Armoured Division in the bridgehead over the Maas-Schelde (Meuse-Escaut) Canal, 16 September 1944. |
 25-pdrs of 430th Battery, 55th Field Regiment, near Hechtel in Belgium, firing in support of Guards Armoured Division in the bridgehead over the Maas-Schelde (Meuse-Escaut) Canal, 16 September 1944. |
 Australian 2/3 Field Regiment 25-pdr being emplaced near Wewak, New Guinea, June 1945 |
 Imperial War Museum (London, UK) |
 Canadian War Museum (Ottawa, Kanada) |
 Operation Market-Garden Memorial (Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands) |
_02.jpg) Operation Market-Garden Memorial (Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands) |
 QF 25 pounder in Batey ha-Osef Museum, Israel. |
 QF 25 pounder in Batey ha-Osef Museum, Israel. |
 QF 25 pounder in Beyt ha-Totchan, Israel. |
 QF 25 pounder in Beyt ha-Totchan, Israel. |
 QF 25 pounder in Beyt ha-Totchan, Israel. |
 Museum of the Polish Army, Warsaw |
 Museum of the Polish Army, Warsaw |
 Museum of the Polish Army, Warsaw |
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 Indirect fire sight |
 Breech |
 Side view |
 Rear view |
