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Colonial Wars - Boer Pom-Pom gun and four crew

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ORGANISATION OF BOER FORCES:  ARTILLERY

‘1n 1899 the Staatsartillerie of the Orange Free State, under Major Albrecht, consisted of five officers and 400 men, including reservists. By 1901 it had lost all its guns and tit was reformed as mounted infantry. The regular strength of the Transvaal Staatsartillerie, commanded by Commandant Trichardt, was also about 400 men. With all reservists called up, its strength was 800 men. The corps comprised mountain, siege, field and ‘cavalry’ batteries, together with telegraph, supply, medical and veterinary branches; and a band.

The Transvaal Statsartillerie had, at the beginning of the Second Anglo-Boer War a battery of four 120mm Krupp howitzers, six 75mm Creusot QF field guns, eight 75mm Krupp QF high velocity field guns, five 75mm Vickers-Maxim QF mountain guns and two Maxim-Nordenfelt guns captured from the Jameson raiders. Butt their most useful armament was to prove four 150mm ox-drawn Creusot guns (the ‘Long Toms’) and 22 one-pdr automatic Vickers-Maxim pom-poms of 37mm calibre. The Transvaal Boers had 31 Maxims of rifle calibre (0.303in and 0.45in).  

The Saatsartillerie of the Orange Free State relied primarily om 14 75mm (black powder) breech-loading Krupp field guns, supported by five 9pdr Armstrongs and a 6pdr Whitworth gun. It also possessed a 3pdr Whitworth, muzzle-loading mountain howitzer, a 37mm Vickers-Maxim QF gun and three Maxims of rifle calibre.'

 

Gun

Calibre

 

Extreme Range (yds)

Type of Fuse

Fire (rpm)

Boer Creusot ‘Long Tom’

155mm

11,000

Percussion.

1

Boer Krupp Creusot field gun

75mm

6,000

8,000

Timed.

Percussion.

2

Boer Maxim-Nordenfeldt

75mm

5,000

 

5

Boer Vickers-Maxim (pom-pom)

37mm

2.750

4,400

Timed.

Percussion.

10

10

British 12pdr RHA

 

3,800

5,600

Timed.

Percussion.

2

2

British 15pdr RFA

 

4,100

5,900

Timed.

Later timed.

2

2

British BL Howitzer (45 degree elevation)

5inch

4,900

8,000

Range depends on elevation

1

British RML mountain gun

2.5inch

3,300

4,000

Timed.

Percussion.

2

2

British naval field gun

4.7inch

10,000

 

1

British naval 12pdr

 

7,000

 

2

 

Source: Wargaming In History, the Second Anglo-Boer War, Edwin Herbert, Argus Books, 1990. Edited by Stuart Asquith, this little gem of a book is a wonderful introduction to any wargamer wanting to build Boer War armies. The three battle scenarios provided are particularly useful.

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