INERT DEACTIVATED. WW1, 1916 Dated, British 13 Pounder (75x313R) Shrapnel Round Fitted With A No. 80 Mk IV Time And Percussion Fuse. - O 1825 INERT DEACTIVATED. WW1, 1916 Dated, British 13 Pounder (75x313R) Shrapnel Round Fitted With A No. 80 Mk IV Time And Percussion Fuse. - O 1825 Other Ammunition

INERT DEACTIVATED. The 13 pounder field gun was the standard horse drawn field gun of the Royal Horse Artillery during WW1 and was pulled by a team of 6 horses. The gun entered service in 1904, replacing the obsolete 15 pounder breach loading and the 12 pounder Erhardt guns as an experience of the Boer war. This is an excellent British 13 pounder shrapnel round, and although the projectile is fired it is in excellent condition. The projectile is stamped round its circumference Q.F. 18Pr and is fitted with an undamaged brass and alloy number 80 mark IV fuse. the nose of the fuse is stamped 80IV 2380 10/16 (October 1916). The cartridge case is headstamped 13Pr II 28 10 /16 (28 October 1916) a crowfoot over N and a makers monogram S C. The brass screw in percussion primer is stamped No II 5/16 (May 1916) W.E.CoLtd. See Hogg British Artillery Weapons and Ammunition 1914 – 1914, pages 58 – 67. The price includes U.K. delivery and no licence is required to possess inert rounds in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. O 1825