18 pounder shrapnel shell desk light

[Gordon Yeo]

Here is a picture of a shell.

[Mike Cecil]

Yep, looks like the one. Thanks

Mike C

[Gordon Yeo]

Here is a, very poor quality, picture of lead balls found in a farmers field near Passchendaele. The penny in the top of the picture is to give a scale of size.

[motto (RIP)]

Thanks Mike, that's exactly the sort of information that I was hoping for. There was a lot of that I didn't know and I imagine that applies to most onlookers.

You've got to love this forum.


Dave

ps I remember seeing (and have a photo of) a turkish skull on display in a little museum in Krithia on the Gallipoli Peninsular with one of these balls lodged half way through right on top. The 'tin hat' was introduced to prevent or reduce such casualties and most certainly did so.