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Offline Plynkes

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Re: Naval Guns and Army Gatling
« Reply #15 on: March 09, 2012, 12:40:18 PM »
Definitely. Interesting how the artist decided to turn the leaning German into an Askari.
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Offline Lowtardog

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Re: Naval Guns and Army Gatling
« Reply #16 on: March 09, 2012, 12:44:29 PM »
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 ! :)

Offline Ray Rivers

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Re: Naval Guns and Army Gatling
« Reply #17 on: March 09, 2012, 01:20:40 PM »
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.

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Re: Naval Guns and Army Gatling
« Reply #18 on: March 09, 2012, 01:30:23 PM »
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.

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Re: Naval Guns and Army Gatling
« Reply #19 on: March 09, 2012, 01:35:48 PM »
Ah!

Yes, that appears to be the situation.

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Re: Naval Guns and Army Gatling
« Reply #20 on: March 09, 2012, 01:37:56 PM »
I like the monkey on the pompom  :D

Inspirational set of photos  :)

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Re: Naval Guns and Army Gatling
« Reply #21 on: March 09, 2012, 01:42:44 PM »
"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.
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Re: Naval Guns and Army Gatling
« Reply #22 on: March 09, 2012, 02:06:45 PM »
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.

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Re: Naval Guns and Army Gatling
« Reply #23 on: March 09, 2012, 02:21:52 PM »
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

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Re: Naval Guns and Army Gatling
« Reply #24 on: March 10, 2012, 08:36:29 AM »
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.  :D Seriously though did they have to hand crank it like a Gatling?
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Re: Naval Guns and Army Gatling
« Reply #25 on: March 15, 2012, 01:01:07 PM »
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.

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