ANIMALS DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR An officer of 444 Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA), smokes a pipe as he supervises a kitten balancing on a 12 inch gun shell near Arras. Comment : 444 Siege Battery operated 2 12 inch Mk V railway howitzers at the time. The officer is standing on the crew platform behind the breech. See also File:Kitten on breech of 12 inch rilway howitzer 19071918 IWM Q 6873.jpg

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   + Animals in World War I
   + BL 12 inch railway howitzer
   + Black and white photographs of men
   + Cats with objects
   + Kittens
   + Photographs from the Imperial War Museum
   + Royal Artillery in World War I
   + Royal Artillery officers
   + Royal Garrison Artillery

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• Artist: John Warwick Brooke
• License: Public Domain

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• Original datetime: 1918-07-19
• Upload datetime: 2011-11-29T07:07:08Z
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   + Photographs taken on 1918-07-19