No17DAPercussionFuzeMkIII.jpg

Description

Diagram of British No. 17 D.A. Percussion Fuze Mk III, with cap, 1914.
Fits G.S. 1 inch fuze socket.
Body is made of a metal resembling gunmetal.
Magazine contains about 70 grans F.G. powder.
Armed by shell rotation.
Used with Lyddite shells for the following guns, Land service :

Date data correct as at 1 August 1914
Source

Plate XLV and pages 275-276, 302 in "Treatise on Ammunition" 10th Edition, 1915.


Facsimile reprint by Imperial War Museum and Naval & Military Press, 2003
Author War Office, UK
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