Collingwood WW1 Gun

[rob love]

There is a book in Library Archives Canada listing all the war trophies, where they were captured and by who, and which town was awarded them. It was a sizeable number of trophies, but there are snippets on the net listing portions of the contents. Quite interesting. They were generally awarded according to enlistment, as opposed to who actually captured it.



Here is a transcribe of some of it. There is no further information on that one: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X7u...Ez4VaCPKU/view

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by rob love

There is a book in Library Archives Canada listing all the war trophies, where they were captured and by who, and which town was awarded them. It was a sizeable number of trophies, but there are snippets on the net listing portions of the contents. Quite interesting. They were generally awarded according to enlistment, as opposed to who actually captured it.

The Royal Australian Artillery Historic Company also is attempting to record the location of all War Trophy guns, and locations of guns at public memorials, etc, and record the individual history of each gun where records exist..

Their list is far from complete, but it does show that many are still in situ 100 years later.
http://artilleryhistory.org/artiller...arch_page.html

There are listings for six 77mm FK96 guns in NSW as public outdoor memorials, plus another four in private ownership. As mentioned, this list is incomplete, so there are likely more in either category.