mick2me 3,033 Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Captured German gun January 1916. Believed outside council house? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 If it was a captured bronze gun , it is probably melted down to make Victoria Crosses and kept archived for such purpose. Other than that it was probably still melted down to make bombs to send back to 'The Hun' !!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pemberton 15 Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 The bronze which is used for making VCs is from a gun captured in the Crimean war. Apparently there is only enough to make a further 80 VCs. This is kept in vault at Bicester which is looked after by the RLC (Royal Logistic Corps). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 I thought the police were trying to keep guns off the streets! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stan 386 Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 If it was a captured bronze gun , it is probably melted down to make Victoria Crosses and kept archived for such purpose. Other than that it was probably still melted down to make bombs to send back to 'The Hun' !!! Wonder if the V.C. awarded to an Australian SAS trooper last week is made from the same supply? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 Hi all, Here is a link to the VC makers website. The metal comes from an older gun. Link to VC website Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stan 386 Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 Thanks for that useful information,Littlebro. !clapping! I understand the Australian award is no longer under the Imperial System. Wonder if the same metal is used. Interesting that even the canon was made in China(or the metal at least) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 859 Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 The gun in the photograph is an 1896 designed 7.7cm light field gun built by Krupp. Due to it's inferior performance compared to the famous French 75, it was replaced in 1916 by a longer barrelled version known as the 7.7cm Feldkanone 16 or FK16. I wonder what happened to it, a shame it never ended up in the Castle Museum, though the rumours flying around a few years ago about some of the stuff that the museum has in storage somewhere? makes you wonder. The Australian VC system was introduced in 1991, the question had been debated for a while following the award of VC's to Aussie troops in the Vietnam War, an action which the UK took no visible part in. Canada followed suit in 1993 and New Zealand in 1999, the NZ Government awarding one of these to another member of the SAS for his bravery in Afghanistan in 2007, no Canadians have yet won an award despite being in the thick of the fighting in Afghanistan, although one VC has already been cast as an example. The Aussie and NZ VC's are from the usual UK source, ie Hancocks reputed two bronze Sevastavol cannons, the Canadian VC's are to be cast from a yet undisclosed source. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 This Gun was displayed in Victoria Park in Ilkeston in 1935 Nicked this off ' Picture the Past ' Understood to be a captured First World War German Howitzer, installed temporarily in Victoria Park after delivery by the war office in the late summer of 1919. The aircraft appear to be Westland Wallaces - the type being coincidentally used February 1935 to May 1937 by No. 504 (county of Nottingham) Squadron at RAF Hucknall, possibly on the annual 'Empire Air Day' in the 1930s. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 yes me dad in flew them with 504 at Hucknall and at Hawkinge Folkestone also Hawker Horsley's (I think, re the latter) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 German gun in Liverpool, I wonder if that's why Hitler's half brother went to live there? lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted May 1, 2016 Report Share Posted May 1, 2016 On this day in 1945 Nazism is defeated & Adolf Hitler killed himself ...... there you go. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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