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Tuesday, 3 December 2013

WW 1- govenment shell filling factory

unknown photograph



Was this taken in Woolwich or else where during WW 1 ?

The author writes ….sorting, shed, possibly at the Royal Shell Filling Factory at Woolwich ..

Checking the lifting plugs fitted to completed high explosive shells. These plugs are removed and replaced with fuses when the shell reaches its firing position [gun battery].


Artillery in the Great War by Paul Strong and Sanders Marble
Published by Pen & Sword 2011 (paper back 2013)

This photograph is also used on ...
http://www.livesofthefirstworldwar.org/






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