NAM.1952-01-33-55-68

Gunners of No. 10 Battery, Royal Marine Artillery displaying 15-inch shells with a written message reading: "To Captain Fryatt Murderers", Becourt, 3 August 1916. Official photograph, 1916 The shells carry graffiti referring to the murderers of Captain Fryatt. Fryatt was a British Merchant Navy Captain who was executed by the Germans in 1916 for attempting to ram a U-boat off the Netherlands in 1915. One of twenty four photographs of artillery subjects, showing types, gun tractors, shells, artillery being manhandled in the mud and railway guns. From a group of 550 photographs, compiled by Lord Henry Seymour Rawlinson while Commander in Chief in India, 1916 (c)-1919.

World War One, War at Sea (1914-1918)

Somme, Battle of the, 1916 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)