Original Ordnance RML 2.5-Inch Mountain Screw Gun Shell- Rudyard Kipling Hand Select:Yes Very Few Only

Very Few Only

During 1942 the specifications for a rolled rim were eliminated and manufacturers began switching to the M42 version

and it became known as the Pattern 42 Bergen Rucksack

Men-o-War and subsequent Naval Battle vessels to "Repel Boarders" and in earlier days were issued in longer lengths

The regiment was originally formed as the Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment)

Original Ordnance RML 2.5-Inch Mountain Screw Gun Shell- Rudyard Kipling Hand Select:Yes Very Few OnlyOriginal Item: Rudyard Kipling gave the name Screw Gun to the British Ordnance RML 2. 5 Inch Mountain Gun in his famous poem Screw Guns, and the gun has been known thus ever since. The Ordnance RML 2. 5 Inch Mountain Gun was made with the barrel in two parts so that it could be broken down into loads that could be carried by animal transport, usually mules but occasionally camels. The two sections of the gun were connected by a threaded, or screwed,