page_title: BL 12-inch railway gun
hierarchical_section_title: BL 12-inch railway gun
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of British 12 inch Mk IX Gun on Armstrong Mk II railway mounting. AWM text reads&#160;: "Meaulte, France. c. 1916. A British Army railway mounted 12 inch naval gun being cleaned." Comment&#160;: The location of the recoil buffers below the barrel and the pattern of the bogies with the frames outside the wheels identifies it as the Armstrong Mk II mounting. See Image:12inchRailwayGunColouredPostcardDailyMail.jpg for colourised propaganda postcard version.
context_page_description: The British Ordnance BL 12 inch gun Mk IX on truck, railway mounted surplus 12 inch Mk IX W naval guns, manufactured by Woolwich Arsenal in 1906, on various railway platforms to provide mobile long-range heavy artillery for the British Army on the Western Front in World War I.
context_section_description: The British Ordnance BL 12 inch gun Mk IX on truck, railway mounted surplus 12 inch Mk IX W naval guns, manufactured by Woolwich Arsenal in 1906, on various railway platforms to provide mobile long-range heavy artillery for the British Army on the Western Front in World War I.
caption: 12 inch Mk IX W railway gun on Armstrong Mk II mounting, Méaulte, France 1916
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