<p>Colourised postcard of Australian troops loading a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9.45_inch_Heavy_Mortar" class="extiw" title="en:9.45 inch Heavy Mortar">9.45 inch trench mortar</a> ("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".
<br>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.
<br>The gun crew have been identified, left to right, as :
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<ul><li>Sergeant Daley</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://deepthought.hass.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=168381">Albert Roy Kyle</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://deepthought.hass.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=55640">Corporal Clift</a></li>
<li>Gunner Lear</li>
<li>Gunner Clive Talbot.</li></ul><p>See <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Australians_Loading_9.45_inch_Trench_Mortar_Somme_2_August_1916.jpg" title="File:Australians Loading 9.45 inch Trench Mortar Somme 2 August 1916.jpg">Image:Australians Loading 9.45 inch Trench Mortar Somme 2 August 1916.jpg</a> for original monochrome photograph.
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<br>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.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29267899" class="extiw" title="d:Q29267899"><span title="photographer">John Warwick Brooke</span></a>
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1916-08-02
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