Thank You 08SMLE48 for looking into this. If these were Arty rounds, who better to ask than I guy who works with them
I was coming back to chime in and say that what James is holding are Not Mortar rounds after spending the last 2 days looking for the projectile for all the mortars mentioned including the 240mm. I found the French, British and the US versions. All showing something completely different than what James is holding.
All the Mortars I found have Fin's on them , But what James is holding did not. It just had me searching for more answers.
I found this Utube video of the French using theirs during WW1. You can see the projectile they are loading has the fin's on it
French soldiers fire a 240mm mortar during World War I HD Stock Footage - YouTube
I found this photo of the British version.
Then I thought I would need something that shows the US version to lock this down.
I found this in a US Army manual online and converted this pdf to jpg.
And this photo provided showing the US during training. I thought I would enlarge the photo and look closer at what they were doing by the muzzle. When I looked I could see the finned projectile they were loading. I enlarged and cropped it.
BAM!
Semper Fi
Phil
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