File:Shell 18pdr HE.jpg

No higher resolution available.

Shell_18pdr_HE.jpg (100 × 230 pixels, file size: 7 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

File information
Description	English: Imperial War Museum Photograph : British First World War period 18pdr HE (high explosive) shell for use with the 18pdr QF Mk I Field Gun. Format Description: British First World War 18pdr HE shell, which when filled would have weighed about 18.5lb, with about 8% bursting charge (by weight). Access Conditions: On display at IWM North
Source	http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30019943
Date	undated
Author	not stated. assumed IWM photographer
Permission (Reusing this file)	See below.

Non-free use rationale : Single use to illustrate the object in question - WWI HE shell for the 18 pdr gun. No equivalent free colour photograph being available. Image used is of greatly diminished size and quality compared to original. Historically significant.

Licensing

This work is protected by the British Crown copyright. Limitations on its distribution are defined at the original site of publication, and are not altered by its reproduction here. Those terms may include, but may not be limited to, its reproduction being accurate, free of charge in any format or medium, and not used in a misleading context. The source of the material must be identified and the copyright status acknowledged. HMSO has explicitly stated in official correspondence that material under Crown Copyright may not be relicensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence.

Thus, this is a non-free licence for the purpose of Wikipedia, as modification is not permitted. However, it is believed that the use of this work:

To illustrate the object in question
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under the copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.
Fair use

To the uploader:

Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
This tag should only be used for Crown copyright images. Do not use it for images by others.

To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

This work is copyrighted (or assumed to be copyrighted) and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content § Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content § Audio clips, and it is not covered by a more specific non-free content license listed at Category:Wikipedia non-free file copyright templates. However, it is believed that the use of this work:

To illustrate the subject in question
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.
Fair use

To the uploader:

Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
Template:Non-free use rationale may be helpful for stating the rationale.
This tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use.

To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	05:34, 8 September 2007		100 × 230 (7 KB)	Rcbutcher (talk \| contribs)

You cannot overwrite this file.

File usage

The following page uses this file:

QF 18-pounder gun

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

_error	0