Making Dummy Guns at Birmingham
For bayonet practice and other aspects of training, recruits to the new army during the First World War were supplied with dummy guns, which were of the same weight and dimensions as the service rifles. Photograph shows a worker in a Birmingham factory putting the finishing touches to a dummy weapon
Picture No
13990858
Media ID
45426026
Size
3350px x 4984px
(1.2MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph in the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, 13 March 1915
Date
1915
