Mark 9 Depth Charge as ready to fire on a Mark 6 K-gun

A combined tank and infantry attack at

Bapaume(http://www.firstworldwar.com/pho

tos/tanks.htm)

flame thrower

British soldiers - victims of a poison gas attack

Men fixing their bayonets

before going 'over the top'.

armoured car

moveable machine gun

U.S. Springfield

The pistol, originally designed as a cavalry weapon,

was the staple weapon for a variety of personnel

during World War One (and beyond). Traditionally

issued to officers of all armies the pistol was also

issued to military police, airmen and tank operators.

Great Austrian Skoda gun which fired a 12-inch

shell

As with the grenade the mortar was yet another old weapon which

found a new lease of life during World War One.

The Vickers Gun, closely modelled on the

Maxim Gun, comprised the British Army's

standard heavy machine gun at the start of the

First World War, following its formal adoption in

1912.

Spandau Gun - otherwise known as the

Maxim LMG 08/15 and nicknamed "the

Devil's paint brush' - was deployed by the

German air service as a replacement for the

Parabellum Gun.

Designed in the United States in 1911 by U.S. Army Colonel

Isaac Newton Lewis (and based upon an earlier overly-

complex design by Samuel McLean), the Lewis gun

comprised an early light machine gun widely adopted by

British and Empire forces from 1915 onwards.

Deployed in the final year of World War I, the

Browning Automatic Rifle (or BAR) was effectively

a form of light machine gun.

The French army's standard heavy tripod mounted machine

gun throughout the war was the Hotchkiss 8mm M1914

machine gun. Although it proved reliable in use it was

unquestionably heavy at 23kg (40kg with its

mounting). Initially adopted in 1900 a number of models were produced until a gas-powered,

air-cooled model was unveiled in 1914.

Although the name was commonly applied to a whole variety of

large-calibre German artillery guns the "Big Bertha" ('Dicke

Berta') actually referred to a single siege gun, at that time the

world's largest and most powerful.

Below is shown the M-gerät in disassembled transport

state, from left to right: barrel, lavette, cradle and earth

spade, general equipment and finally the bedding

("bettung"). It was thus transported in five, tractor-pulled

special wagons.