10.5287/BODLEIANJ8E9.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
18 Pounder (Mk II) Shell (7)
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
WdUzzgyu126869
2011-12-05 10:55:40.642949
2011-12-05 10:55:41.303900
2011
gwa-3491
Artifact
Bears inscription:
France
1914 - 1919
Souvenir of the Great War
and on 'reverse' side, the inscription:
Made by a
German Prisoner of War
Glisy 13th MArch 1919
Gefr. Krzik.
Plant/leaf decoration, with Welsh dragon and mortar inscribed motifs.
Base reads:
18 PR ('R' superscripted and underscored)
II
Lot J150
1917
2.9
JM ROC [logo]
other inscriptions as per image.
Brought home by my grandfather, Sgt., Major Edward Rowlands, of Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, north Wales.
Shell height: 294mm, diameter (projectile end)ca. 88mm, firing pin lip end diameter: 102mm