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Description: | The commander of a Royal Artillery field battery spots for his guns from the top of a limber pole ladder. The use of such observation ladders was often the only way to get anything approaching a useful view of the battlefields on the flat plain along the River Tigris in Mesopotamia.
An artillery observation ladder. These light, portable ladders were of great use. At the top was a bullet proof shield and it was found that it could be put up frequently within 1000 yards of the Turkish trenches.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Mesopotamia 1914-1918 Communications Royal Artillery Operations Ottoman Empire British Army 1914-1918 British Army Land Warfare First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Varges, Ariel | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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