British 4.2-inch Heavy Mortar

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Neil Ashley
You do have the correct Mortar. Attached (hopefuly) is a page from the long out of print book W2 Fact Files on Mortars and Rockets.

Thanks!

There is another late war version which has wheel's on the base plate allowing it to be towed behind a jeep. This type remained in British Army service untill the 1960's.

Would that be this one?

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I believe the Dutch army retained stocks untill quite recently.

As far as I know, the Dutch Army has the 120-mm Brandt mortar. In 2004 it was phased out from regular infantry units, but remains in service with the Air Mobile Brigade and Marines. A number of surplus mortars were sold to Belgium in 2004.

If you have a specific reference to the 4.2-inch mortar in Dutch Army reserve, I'd like to know more details as I have an Army contact and can see if and when they were removed from stock (and to try a few are kept from being scrapped!).

H.