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These graze and impact fuzes continued to be used as intended for medium and heavy artillery high-explosive shells. Up to and including the Battle of the Somme in 1916, British forces relied on shrapnel shells fired by 18-pounder field guns and spherical high-explosive bombs fired by 2-inch "plum-pudding" mortars for cutting barbed-wire ...
Some British designs were used by the United States. The British also supplied guns to Australia and New Zealand. [8] Despite the long tradition of British naval heavy artillery developments, the British Empire did not have heavy field artillery before World War I, which disadvantaged the British infantry in the first years of the war.
Field artillery (both 18-pounder and 4.5-inch howitzer) was used successfully during the pre-Zero fire in the Battle of the Somme in late June – early July 1916, when the British heavy artillery damaged German defensive works and forced troops into the open to rebuild them they were successfully fired on with shrapnel. [45]
Pages in category "World War I artillery of the United Kingdom" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
The Shell Crisis of 1915 was a shortage of artillery shells on the front lines in the First World War that led to a political crisis in the United Kingdom. Previous military experience led to an over-reliance on shrapnel to attack infantry in the open, which was negated by the resort to trench warfare, for which high-explosive shells were ...
The majority of military planners before the First World War were wedded to the concept of fighting an offensive war of rapid maneuver which in a time before mechanization meant a focus on cavalry and light horse artillery firing shrapnel shells.
Russian 122 mm shrapnel shell. A new British streamlined shrapnel shell, Mk 3D, had been developed for BL 60 pounder gun in the early 1930s, containing 760 bullets. There was some use of shrapnel by the British in the campaigns in East and North East Africa at the beginning of the war, where 18-pdr and 4.5-in (114 mm) howitzers were used.
ML 8 inch shell gun United Kingdom: 1820s - 1860s 206 mm (8.1 in) 68-pounder gun United Kingdom: 1840s - 1900s 210 mm (8.3 in) 21 cm L/35 German Empire: 1890-1936 210 mm (8.3 in) 21 cm SK L/40 German Empire: World War I - World War II 210 mm (8.3 in) 21 cm SK L/45 German Empire: World War I - World War II 210 mm (8.3 in)