First-aid post /shooting position of a Mortar 4″2

Initially equipped with mortars 3 inches (see room 5), the mortar platoon has been equipped in the Fifties with mortars 81mm (see room 5) and with mortars 4″2 of which you see here a specimen in shooting position. Reconstitution of a first-aid post on campaign. Besides the first aid, the post is used especially as marshalling post before sending the wounded backwards.

A mortar 4″2 in shooting position

A first-aid post on campaign