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English: Men of the Saxmundham Home Guard prepare to fire a 'Blacker Bombard' during training with War Office instructors, 30 July 1941. The weapon was a 29mm spigot mortar, designed by a Lieutenant Colonel V V S Blacker, and could fire a 20lb bomb some 900yds.
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This photograph H 12299 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums .
Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by User:Skiff using CommonsHelper .
Author Puttnam (Lt) War Office official photographer

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