Naval Guns and Army Gatling

[Plynkes]

Definitely. Interesting how the artist decided to turn the leaning German into an Askari.

[Lowtardog]

Definitely. Interesting how the artist decided to turn the leaning German into an Askari.

Very true you would thik that would be the last thing a Colonial artist would do !

[Ray Rivers]

Note how in the second photo of the Gatling gun firing how one of the chaps appears to have to raise his head fairly significantly to see forward.

[Plynkes]

Looks to me more like he's looking up at the loader fellow standing on the gun that he's passing something to (ammo, I guess). You can see the loader's fingers emerging from behind the gun-operator's back, just about to take whatever it is from him.

[Ray Rivers]

Ah!

Yes, that appears to be the situation.

[fastolfrus]

I like the monkey on the pompom 

Inspirational set of photos 

cheers

James

That's not a euphemism I've heard before :~}

[fastolfrus]

"Apotheke" is German for pharmacy, I think. So RCW is perhaps unlikely. Uniforms look German too.

Maybe it's somewhere on the eastern front rather than RCW?

Or even Poland etc 1919?
The uniforms don't seem to have any identifying details, not even rank badges by the look of things.

[Plynkes]

German Revolution, maybe? Not a subject I know much about, but their arrangement is pretty ad-hoc and unmilitary-looking, what with it being mounted on a sled on a trolley.

[aircav]

They seem to be wearing a mixture of the 1915 intermediate & 1915 bluse, so it could well be 1916

the guy at the front looks very mountain trooper to me, but the others look to have jack boots on

[The Breaker]

In the photo where they are firing the gun, I couldn't see any ear plugs being worn. Surely that is against O,H & S.  Seriously though did they have to hand crank it like a Gatling?

[Melnibonean]

Maybe it's somewhere on the eastern front rather than RCW?

Or even Poland etc 1919?
The uniforms don't seem to have any identifying details, not even rank badges by the look of things.

The sign on the front of the restaurant is in French. From what I can make out it seems to translate as: Formal Restaurant