A Beta-M-Gerät around the time of the German Spring Offensive. An improvement on the 42cm “Big Bertha”, this 30.5cm howitzer was intended to provide longer range fire. (Collection of M. Romanych)
A 30.5cm Beta i.R. howitzer in action on the Eastern Front in 1915. (Collection of M. Romanych)
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An M-Gerät 42cm howitzer with a burst barrel, the fate of several of the “Big Berthas” due to poor quality ammunition. Built by Krupp, the name Dicke Bertha was given by German soldiers possibly because the company was owned by Bertha Krupp. However, while for Germans the name applied exclusively to the M-Gerät 42cm howitzer, it became a common name for any heavy artillery employed by the Germans in the minds of the Entente powers, and instead became most associated with the “Paris Gun”, the superheavy railway gun used to shell the city from eighty miles away. (Collection of M. Romanych)
The Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS): Wren Armourers, whose jobs included the overhaul, maintenance and serving of guns, pictured testing a Lewis gun at Lee-on-Solent Naval Air Station. IWM