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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 observation ladder with rang finders.
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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 | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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