Occasionally the question is asked regarding WWI gun ammunition whether Australia made the likes of 18-pr shell. The following page from a Ministry of Munitions file, "Notes on Munitions Work Done for and by the Ministry in India, Australia, South Africa and Canada", states "after an experimental stage during which a few thousand shell were supplied, this branch of munitions manufacture ceased". Australia's main contribution to gun ammunition was the supply of raw materials, but that is not to say a rare Australian 18-pr might not surface from time to time.
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