Fichier:15pounder7cwtBreechSecondBoerWar.jpg

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"15 pr 7 cwt BL on Mk III carriage - note the tangent sight mounted above the breech, and the elevating screw. This method of elevation had been in use for over 200 years".


Comment : This appears to be a Boer propaganda photograph, with Boer commandos posing with a captured British gun.
Date Second Boer War circa. 1899-1900
Source Major Darrell D. Hall, "Guns in South Africa 1899-1902" in The South African Military History Society. Military History Journal - Vol 2 No 1, June 1971
Auteur Transvaal Republic war photographer ? (predecessor state to Union of South Africa)
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A South African work that is in the public domain in South Africa according to this rule is in the public domain in the U.S. only if it was in the public domain in South Africa in 1996, e.g. if it was published before 1946 and no copyright was registered in the U.S. (This is the effect of 17 USC 104A with its critical date of January 1, 1996.)

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