Artillery in Canada: 25-pounder QF Field Gun
Artillery in Canadian Service: 25-pounder QF Field Gun
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3225385)
25-pounders in service with the 8th Field Regiment of the Royal Canadian Artillery during practice, 20 Jan 1942.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3607522)
Three 25-pounders in early RCA service.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3205726)
L/Bdr D. Robertson, Sgt W. Malcolm, Gunner R. Flemming and Gunner J. Gaudet (left to right), Royal Canadian Horse Artillery (RCHA), ready to fire 25-pounder, 26 Sep 1951.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3205726)
L/Bdr. Don Cecile setting sights of 25 pdr. gun of 216 Battery, 81st Field Regiment, RCA, 21 May 1953.
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(DND Photo)
25-pounder QF Field Gun, ca 1950s.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3225386)
8th Field Regiment of the Royal Canadian Artillery receiving instructions during the Reserve Force summer exercises, 3 July 1950.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3397506)
25-pounder C Mk. 2 QF Field Gun, Barham, UK, 10 Apr 1942.
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(Library and Archives Canada, MIKAN No. 3607521)
25-pounder C Mk. 2 QF Field Gun with No. 9 circular firing platform, towed by a Canadian Military Pattern (CMP) Field Artillery Tractor (FAT).
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3534477)
25-pounder C Mk. 2 QF Field Gun with No. 9 circular firing platform, Gunners, 17th Fd Regt, RCA, Castel Frentano, Italy, 10 Feb 1944.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4232829)
25-pounder gun crew with two Italian women, 1943.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4329003)
25-pounder C Mk. I QF Field Gun, being examined by RCA Cadets, ca 1945.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3250917)
Second World War Psy Ops, Private R.J. Travis of No.3 Leaflet Unit placing propaganda leaflets into a 25-pounder shell to be fired by Sergeant T. McCormick of the 191 Hearst and Essex Yeomanry Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (RA) (British Army), into German-held positions in Dunkirk, France, ca. 15-25 September 1944.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3208434)
25-pounder C Mk. 2 QF Field Gun with No. 9 circular firing platform, crossing a temporary bridge, Balkbrug, Netherlands, 11 Apr 1945.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4233445)
25-pounder Field Gun towed by a FAT during a 2nd Division Artillery parade, post war.
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(Library & Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3192329)
25-pounder C Mk. 2 QF Field Gun with No. 9 circular firing platform with limber, begin towed by a Field Artillery Tractor (FAT), Caen, France, 17 Aug 1944.
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(Library & Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3604368)
25-pounder C Mk. 2 QF Field Gun with No. 9 circular firing platform with limber, begin towed by a Field Artillery Tractor (FAT).
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3192317)
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3224150)
25-pounder C Mk. 2 QF Field Gun with No. 9 circular firing platform, in action, served by Gunners of B Troop, 5th Bty, 5th Fd Regt, RCA. L. to R.: Sergent Jack Brown, with Officers Brigadier Joe Wilson, General Lyle Ludwig, General George Spence and General Bill Stewart, 1 - 2 Feb 1945.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4234280)
25-pounder C Mk. 2 QF Field Guns with No. 9 circular firing platform, firing a salute during a post-war Royal Visit to, Ottawa.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 5013551)
25-pounder in action, 2nd Regt, RCHA, Korea, 28 May 1951.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3205392)
Gunners Len Forbes, Herb Guard, Donald Germscheid and Frank Curliss, all of the 13th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery , playing cards on the breech of their 25-pounder as they await firing orders, France, 25 June 1944.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3604364)
25-pounder field gun.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3604364)
25-pounder field gun.