3-inch Archives - Football and the First World War

Stokes 3-inch Trench Mortar

The Stokes 3-inch Trench Mortar was a bipod-mounted light mortar weapon designed and developed by English engineer Frederick Wilfred Scott Stokes, later to become Sir Wilfred Stokes KBE. It was adopted by the British Army in mid-1915 and would remain in service for more than two decades. While existing howitzers were extremely capable against entrenched enemy […]