Open Air Displaye Bloemfontein

This open air display includes many military vehicles and other weaponry:

Quick-Firing heavy anti-aircraft gun MK II
Three-inch Mortar on carriage
Six-pounder anti-tank gun
Self-propelled gun
Field gun MK II
Anti-tank gun
Quick-firing light anti-aircraft Bofors gun (x2)
Sherman medium tank M4/105 (FB 247)
Sherman medium tank M4A1 (W) (FB245)
Stuart M3A1 light tank "honey" (FB 871 and FB 872)
Eland MK 7/90 armoured car (FB 248)
Armoured reconnaissance car MK IV
Combat tank elephant MK 1A (FBN 453)
Nine-pounder muzzle-loader cannon
Four-pounder mercantile cannon (FB 2141)

BL 6 inch 26 cwt Howitzer
This is one of the six BL 6 inch 26 cwt Howitzers which returned from France after World War I. Each of these guns, which are spread across South Africa, commemorates a unit that was active in the First World War.
This howitzer at the Queen’s Fort Military Museum commemorates the dead of the 74th (Eastern Province) Siege Battery.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Wikimedia Commons (1), Frank Louw (2)