10.5287/BODLEIANDRBZ.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Light Artillery Shell (1)
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
nsJvlaZm118238
1917-01-01/1917-12-31
2011-12-05 10:55:30.815170
2011
GWA_1762_pdps1.jpg
Artifact
Have two identical shells, ca. 170mm long (including projectile head, itself about 40mm diameter, 108mm length) brass shell casing 94mm length, 44mm diamter at the firing pin lipped end,
Inscribed:
Sgt Major E. Rowlands [Edward Rowlands, my grandfather]
115 Trench Mortar Bater[y] [polished, unclear]
TRECH [assumed to be surname of maker, German POW?]