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Description

Diagram of British common lyddite shell Mk III for BL 60 pounder gun.
Length 19.05 inches, diameter 4.97 inches, weight filled & fuzed 60 lbs. Forged steel. 2 c.r. head.
1 inch G.S. fuze hole.
Bursting charge 8 lb including 4 1/4 oz picric powder exploder.
Source

Plate XXIII, pages 207-208, 219 in "Treatise on Ammunition" 10th edition 1915.
Facsimile reprint by Imperial War Museum and Naval & Military Press, 2003.
Date

data correct as at 1 August 1914.
Author

War Office, UK
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