Australia, HMAS Brisbane, 6 inch Mk XI Guns
HMAS Brisbane dressed overall (date and location not recorded). HMAS Brisbane was the source of one of the 6 inch Mk XI guns which formed part of the armament of Bickley Battery
Gun No. 2328 which is today on display at the Leighton Battery Heritage site in Mosman Park saw service aboard the first-Australian built cruiser, HMAS Brisbane in World War One.
This gun was at Woolwich, London in 1913 and sent to Australia on September 28, 1914 as part of the armament of HMAS Brisbane, then under construction at the Cockatoo Island Dockyard in Sydney.
Commissioned on October 30, 1916 HMAS Brisbane was soon dispatched to the Mediterranean via Singapore for service with the Royal Navy.
As this gun, No. 2328 was recorded at Plymouth on May 22, 1917 it must be assumed that it had been replaced early that year before HMAS Brisbane was dispatched to Colombo as a unit of the East Indies Squadron searching for German raiders operating in the Indian Ocean.
It appears that after its removal from HMAS Brisbane, this gun was moved about as a spare being at Simonstown, South Africa in 1919, Chatham in England in 1925 and finally arriving back in Sydney, on August 27, 1938 as one of three Mark XI guns sent to Australia in exchange for worn guns.
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- World War 2, Western Australia, Leighton Battery, 1942 (0km away)
- World War 2, Australia, Western Australia, Buckland Hill, Leighton Battery,1943 (0km away)
- World War 2, Western Australia, Fortress Fremantle, Leighton Battery, Installation, 1943 (0km away)
- World War 2, Western Australia, Fortress Fremantle, Leighton Battery, Installation, 1943 (0km away)
- World War 2, Western Australia, Fortress Fremantle, Leighton Battery, Installation, 1943 (0km away)
- World War 2, Western Australia, Fortress Fremantle, Leighton Battery, Construction, 1943 (0km away)
- POSTER - Fortress Fremantle Graphic 5.25 inch Batteries (0.03km away)
- World War 2, Australia, Western Australia, Mosman Park, Buckland Hill, Heavy Anti-Aircraft, 1943 (0.03km away)
- World War 2, Australia, Western Australia, Mosman Park, Buckland Hill, Leighton Battery, 1943 (0.03km away)
- World War 2, Western Australia, Fortress Fremantle, Leighton Battery, 1945 (0.03km away)
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