On the right appears to be a water tank, but on the left I am not sure - I have seen civilian pre-WW1 water tanks in this style, used by local councils etc
The captured 18 Pounders were eventually recycled in the 1930s - they were converted to 105mm howitzers by HiH/Siderius (Rheinmetall front company) in Holland.
There are a couple of survivors in the Istanbul Military Museum.
The images are by "nuyt", who occaisonally appears on this forum. I think the images are from 2006 at the Military Museum in Istanbul. Nuyt noted that
he almost got arrested since the guns weren't in a public area. According to "nuyt" about 32 of the captured 18 Pounders were converted by HiH in 1932.
Afaik the 18 Pounders were left behind by the Allies at Gallipoli and there were a fair number captured at Kut on the Tigris when the fortress surrendered in 1916.
Regards,
Charlie
-- Edited by CharlieC on Saturday 19th of January 2013 11:25:59 PM
Charlie, do you know of any photos of the recycled 18 pounders? Would be very interested in seeing them. A bit surprised that the British didn't ask for them back during the occupation after the war, probably not much need for them though but as the Royal Artillery are very proud of their guns and take as much effort as possible not to lose them, it could have been an honour thing to try and get them back. I wasn't aware of any other British artillery left behind, certainly my great-grandfather's mountain artillery unit got all there's off, well, apart from the last two which slid off the raft when the towing vessel did a tight turn!
