The White Heat of Technology, 1916.

A two hundred year old mortar employed by the Ottoman forces at Kut el Amara, April 1916.

Which of course means that we need to have one of these.

The mortar comes from Eureka Miniatures, the gunners carrying the shell are coverted ACW figures from T A Miniatures and the other two gunners are converted Perry Miniatures Sudan Egyptian gunners. All the heads come from Woodbine Designs.