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Colourised postcard of Australian troops loading a 9.45 inch trench mortar ("Flying Pig") near Pozières, France, August 1916. Text on back of postcard read "Tommy's nickname for a trench-mortar is 'flying pig' and this picture shows some of our men loading one of these useful weapons".
AWM Caption : France: Picardie, Somme, Pozieres. Five members of an Australian trench mortar battery preparing to fire their heavy trench mortar in the Chalk Pit.
The gun crew have been identified, left to right, as :

See Image:Australians Loading 9.45 inch Trench Mortar Somme 2 August 1916.jpg for original monochrome photograph.


Comment : The absence of a fuze on the bomb and lack of concealment indicates this is a training or publicity photograph away from the front line.
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This photograph Q 4092 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 1900-13)
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John Warwick Brooke  (1886–1929)  wikidata:Q29267899
 
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Date of birth/death 30 May 1886 Edit this at Wikidata 1929 Edit this at Wikidata
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