Weapon - ARTILLERY SHELL & PROJECTILE, 1917
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.1) Brass cannon shell. calibre 37 mm with projectile shell - brass - inert .2) Projectile - steel with four copper driving bands, not fired - nose cap - hollow brass threaded base. Shell - base "37 - 85 pdps 73 .9.17", Projectile - "IF (not legible)", Nose cap - "39817"
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35mm shell 1917 - Arms and other weapons - The Great War (1914-1918) Forum
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Were there really piles of spent artillery shells littered across the battlefields of WW1? If so, what'd they do with them all after the Armistice? - Quora
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