page_title: 155 mm Creusot Long Tom
section_title: Kimberley
hierarchical_section_title: 155 mm Creusot Long Tom / Location of Long Tom emplacements / Kimberley
caption_attribution_description: English: The Boer Long Tom gun en route to the Siege of Kimberley.
context_page_description: The 155 mm Creusot Long Tom was a French siege gun manufactured by Schneider et Cie in Le Creusot, France and used by the Boers in the Second Boer War as field guns.
  Four guns, along with 4,000 common shells, 4,000 shrapnel shells and 800 case shot were purchased by the South African Republic in 1897. The guns were emplaced in four forts around the country's capital, Pretoria.
context_section_description: The Long Tom damaged by British forces on 7 December 1899 was taken back to Pretoria for repairs. There the front end of the muzzle was cut off, and henceforth the gun was known as "the Jew". The breechblock was replaced and it was ready for action. It was then sent to Kimberley, where it was emplaced on a mine dump next to the Kamfers Dam on 6 February 1900.
caption: "The Jew" being transported to the Siege of Kimberley
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