Heavy Artillery Memorial (75th (Natal) Siege Battery)
Photo: Shelley Baker
Location
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa
MOTH Museum of Militaria, corner of KE Masinga Road and Samora Machel Street
GPS: 29 deg 51 min 3.69 sec S, 31 deg 1 min 36.29 sec E
Photo: Shelley Baker
Significance
This 6-inch 26-cwt howitzer is one of 6 brought from the Western Front to be memorials to the South African Heavy Artillery in major centres in South Africa. There is no plaque at this gun.
It is gun R006 in the Gunners Association of South Africa Register of Heritage Guns
Photo: Shelley Baker
Photo: Shelley Baker
Photo: Shelley Baker
Photo: Shelley Baker
Further information
South African Heavy Artillery Memorial (71st (Transvaal) Siege Battery) Johannesburg
South African Heavy Artillery Memorial (125th (Transvaal) Siege Battery) Pretoria