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Photographs of shell fuze door stop

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AuthorUnknown
TitlePhotographs of shell fuze door stop
NotesBritish First World War No. 82 Fuze, made in the Royal Laboratories (Royal Arsenal at Woolwich) in 1911. This type of time and percussion fuze, of which there were four marks, was used in conjunction with the 4.5 in Howitzer Shrapnel shell (this information kindly provided by Mr Martin Garnett of the Imperial War Museum, based on sight of the attached images).

This artefact was prepared as a door stop by a great uncle (of the Gloucestershire Regiment) as a memento for my great grandmother.
Item DateMay 1911
Creation placeFrance or Belgium
File typeImage
Item sourceOther
Item mediumMixed
ContentOther
CataloguerRichard Marshall
CopyrightThe Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
Digital repositoryThe Great War Archive, University of Oxford
Contributor NameDr Philip Kerry
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/8873