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Livens Large Gallery Flame Projectors were large experimental flamethrowers used by the British Army in World War I named after their inventor Royal Engineers officer William Howard Livens.Four flamethrowers were deployed in 1916 the Battle of the Somme and one in 1917 in an offensive near Diksmuide Belgium. Two of the weapons at Somme were destroyed by German shelling before they could be used but the other two were used at the start of the offensive.
