Original Ordnance RML 2.5-Inch Mountain Screw Gun Shell- Rudyard Kipling Swords II Crown in the center

II Crown in the center of the blue enameled helmet plate

protecting the map

This photograph is likely to have been taken between 23 July and 4 August 1916

Original Item: British WW2 issue

Inductance is adjustable by means of a dust core trimmer assembly

Original Ordnance RML 2.5-Inch Mountain Screw Gun Shell- Rudyard Kipling Swords II Crown in the centerOriginal Item: Rudyard Kipling gave the name Screw Gun to the British Ordnance RML 2. 5 Inch Mountain Gun in his famous poem Screw Guns, and the gun has been known thus ever since. The Ordnance RML 2. 5 Inch Mountain Gun was made with the barrel in two parts so that it could be broken down into loads that could be carried by animal transport, usually mules but occasionally camels. The two sections of the gun were connected by a threaded, or screwed,