Picture No | 10219714 |
Date | 1916 |
Description | A heavy gun battery moving uphill during the Balkan campaign |
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A French heavy-gun battery move up a steep hill during fighting with the Bulgarian army on the Macedonian border, October 1916. The battery was part of the Allied army based at the Greek port of Salonika and required a team of sixteen horses to move the weapon up the sharp incline pictured.
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Source | Photograph in 'The Illustrated London News', 28 October 1916, page 515 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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