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New Zealand gunners load a 6-inch Newton medium trench mortar near Colincamps during the German spring offensive on the Western Front, March–April 1918. The Newton mortar could fire eight 24-kg bombs a minute as far as 1700 m. They were used by the New Zealand Division’s medium trench mortar batteries from December 1917.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Reference: 1/2-013122-G
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