Captured German gun


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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' !!!

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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).

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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?

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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)

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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.

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This Gun was displayed in Victoria Park in Ilkeston in 1935

Nicked this off ' Picture the Past '

Howizter.jpg

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.

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