Image:BL15pdrCorditeCartridgeBoerWar.jpg

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Description

Mk I 15 3/4 oz Cordite cartridge for BL 15 pounder field gun, Second Boer War vintage.
This cartridge was originally designed for use in the BL 12 pounder 7 cwt gun, and renamed for the 15 pdr. This image shows the early version, stamped for BL 15 pdr. Later versions were stamped for BL and BLC 15 pounder use.
Length 11.5 inches, diameter 1.9 inches.
Contained 15 3/4 oz Cordite I size 5 and igniter of 2 drams Guncotton yarn at each end.
Source

Image : Major Darrell D. Hall, "AMMUNITION: 15-PR 7 cwt BL". in The South African Military History Society Military History Journal - Vol 3 No 4, December 1975
From contemporary British Ordnance manual circa. 1900
Info : Treatise on Ammunition 10th Edition, 1915, Pages 67 & 79.
Date

circa. 1900
Author

War Office (UK)
Permission
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