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.
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Morris-Commercial C8 'Quad' artillery tractor with limber and 25-pdr field gun, on an exercise in Scotland, 20 March 1941.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Australian 2/3 Field Regiment 25-pdr being emplaced near Wewak, New Guinea, June 1945
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Imperial War Museum (London, UK)
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Canadian War Museum (Ottawa, Kanada)
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Operation Market-Garden Memorial (Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands)
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Operation Market-Garden Memorial (Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands)
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QF 25 pounder in Batey ha-Osef Museum, Israel.
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QF 25 pounder in Batey ha-Osef Museum, Israel.
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QF 25 pounder in Beyt ha-Totchan, Israel.
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QF 25 pounder in Beyt ha-Totchan, Israel.
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QF 25 pounder in Beyt ha-Totchan, Israel.
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Museum of the Polish Army, Warsaw
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Museum of the Polish Army, Warsaw
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Museum of the Polish Army, Warsaw
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Ammunition
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Indirect fire sight
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Breech
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Side view
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Rear view