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The 75mm guns were used to defend Boer positions and as support weapons in attack. They
could fire both shrapnel and common shell (that is, high explosive in a steel case). The Pom-Pom was
a large calibre machine-gun that fired one-pound (0.45kg) explosive shells. It used smokeless
powder, and thus its position could not be detected from a distance, but the effect of the shells’
explosions was fairly trivial. It was useful for the destruction of morale induced by the relentless
repetition of its fire – pom, pom, pom, pom – and for range-finding by noting the fall of shot.
The usefulness of artillery to the Boers declined as the war went on. After the action at
Bothaville Chief-commandant Christiaan De Wet made little of the loss of his artillery, both because
ammunition was running low and because mobility and low visibility had become greater assets than
artillery.
75mm Creusot QF: Weight of shell: common – 11.5lb/5.2kg; shrapnel – 14lb/6.4kg. Range –
6,800 yards/6,200m.
75mm Krupp QF: Weight of shell: common – 13.5lb/6.1kg; shrapnel – 11lb/5kg. Range: time
fuse – 3,850 yards/3,520m; percussion – 6,600 yards/6,035m.
120mm Krupp Howitzer: Weight of shell – 35lb/15.9kg. Range – 6,300 yards/5,750m.
155mm Creusot Long Tom: Weight of shell – 94lb/43kg. Range – 11,000 yards/10,060m.
37mm Maxim-Nordenfelt Pom-Pom: Weight of shell – 1lb/0.45kg. Range – 3,000
yards/2,740m.
See also:
Albrecht, Major F. W. R.; Armoured Train Incident; Artillery, British, Field and Naval;
Bothaville, Action at; Kimberley, Siege of; Ladysmith, Siege of; Mafeking, Siege of; Magersfontein,
Battle of; Maxim-Nordenfelt Pom-Pom; Trichardt, Lieutenant-colonel S.P.E.
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