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The Garland Trench Mortar was an improvised mortar used by Australian and British forces at Gallipoli during the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915–16. Developed early in the war by Herbert Garland a pre-war metallurgist and superintendent of laboratories at the Cairo Citadel it was the most numerous mortar of the Gallipoli campaign. A simple improvised design the Garland mortar consisted of a smoothbore steel barrel fixed at 45 degrees to a solid wooden base.
