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English: Photograph of British troops loading a Vickers 2 inch Medium Mortar ("Toffee Apple" mortar) with "Post, No.4, Mark I periscope" attached.

The caption states this is on the Balkan front, which could be deliberate wartime disinformation. This could be a training exercise.

See also Image:TroopsOperating2inchMortarInTrenchWWI.jpg which appears to be of the same location.
Source

"The Great War" Volume 11 page 443, edited by H W Wilson, published 1918.
Date

circa. 1916-1918
Author

British Government
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