60-pounder
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A 60-pounder at full recoil. In action at Cape Helles during the Battle of Gallipoli, June 1915.
The British 60-pounder was a medium 5 inch (127 mm) artillery gun designed in 1904. The 60-pounder was the mainstay of British medium artillery during the First World War, being operated by batteries of the Royal Garrison Artillery and used mainly for counter-battery fire. It could fire a 60 lb (27.3 kg) shell 10,300 yards (9.4 km). Weighting 4.4 tonnes, the 60-pounder required a team of 12 horses to move it. Later modifications added another tonne to the gun's weight such that it could only be towed by a caterpillar tractor.
The 60-pounder remained in use by the British Army until 1944.
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