Hi Forum, I am hoping you can fill in the details for me about the headstamp markings on a cartridge case that my son has just brought back from a school trip to the Somme. I have been on the internet but can't find a match for all the symbols. I have taken a pic so hopefully someone will recognise them.
Looking through this forum I have gleaned it is an 18 pounder mark 2,
manufactured 1917,
CF - cordite filled (does this mean it was only fired once?)
EOC - Elswick Ordnance Company - Newcastle
LOTB 9777 - is this just the batch number of manufacture?
What I can't work out is what sort of projectile did it fire? Should there be some letters to show this?
What do the "6" under the arrow, and the J,M in the diamond mean?
Would the primer have been made by the same company, and is that "bell" logo anything of interest.
If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance, Spike1.
Looking through this forum I have gleaned it is an 18 pounder mark 2,
manufactured 1917,
CF - cordite filled (does this mean it was only fired once?)
EOC - Elswick Ordnance Company - Newcastle
LOTB 9777 - is this just the batch number of manufacture?
What I can't work out is what sort of projectile did it fire? Should there be some letters to show this?
What do the "6" under the arrow, and the J,M in the diamond mean?
Would the primer have been made by the same company, and is that "bell" logo anything of interest.
If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance, Spike1.