The Ordnance BL 12 inch gun Mk IX on truck railway mounted surplus 12 inch Mk IX W naval guns manufactured by Woolwich Arsenal in 1906 on various railway platforms to provide mobile long-range heavy artillery on the Western Front in World War I.
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