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Old 27-07-15, 12:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Toby Purcell View Post
It's not a cannon but a Maxim MMG on a wheeled carriage.
I called it 'cannon' because signalman, the OP, had named his image files "tiny cannon"

I had it clocked as a Boer War vintage 200lbs Mark IV RML 7 pounder Mountain Gun.

Cf. these British RML 7 pounders captured by the Boers at Kraaipan


It doesn't look like a Maxim machine gun to me.
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