Photos from the RCA Museum Artillery Collection
The Abbot manufactured by Vickers entered service with the British Army in 1965. The gun was also used in Germany as part of the British Army of the Rhine and the support of NATO. In Canada, the Royal Horse Artillery Regiment used it. The Abbot was withdrawn from service in 1995, replaced with the AS …
The L5 105mm Pack Howitzer was in Canadian service in parachute and light roles from 1969 to 1994. An Italian design that can be broken down into 11 loads was ideal for moving via pack animals and for parachute drops. NATO standardized field artillery soon after it was formed, causing Canada to replace all 25 …
The Canadian Artillery used the 12 Pounder Rifled Breech Loading Gun (12 Pounder RBL) during the Boer War (1899-1902). The 12 Pounder RBL was in Canadian service from 1897-1911, replacing the 9 Pounder RML. The 12 Pounder RBL was breech-loading and an improvement from the older muzzle-loading models. The 12 Pounder included a one-piece, rifled …
Used by the Red Army during World War II, the 122mm M1938 Howitzer was widely used by the Soviet Union and its allies during the Cold War. The 122mm M1938 Howitzer was introduced into the Red Army in September 1939. It was the standard Soviet divisional towed howitzer into the 1960s. Captured examples were used …
The Quick Firing (QF) 13 pounder was standard equipment for the British Royal Horse Artillery and the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery during the First World War. In 1906, Canadian units received the QF 13 pounder for the horse artillery and QF 18 pounder for the field artillery. 0n 23 September 1914, the RCHA embarked with …
