85lb

Updated: May 27, 2025

Then the nasty thing exploded in his face, and he lost one eye and is otherwise a good deal cut about. In the afternoon I rode out again to the howitzers on Waggon Hill. The 6 in. gun which they command from their invisible station has not fired for six days. The Boer gunners dare not set it to work for fear of the 85lb. shells which are fired the moment Boers are seen in the sangar.

Henry Woodd Nevinson - Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege