Canon de 75 modèle 1914 Schneider

Canon de 75mm Modele 1914
Canon de 75 modèle 1914 Schneider Polish Army Museum in Warsaw.
Type	light field gun
Place of origin	France
Service history
In service	1914-1930s
Used by	France, Poland
Wars	World War I, Polish-Soviet War
Production history
Produced	1914-?
Specifications
Mass	1108 kg (2,700 lbs) in battery
Crew	6
Shell	high-explosive, shrapnel
Shell weight	5.50-7.20 kg (12.12-16 lbs)
Caliber	75 mm (2.95 in)
Carriage	horse-drawn
Rate of fire	12-15/min

The Canon de 75 modèle 1914 Schneider was a light field gun used by the French Army of World War I. It was created by modifying an export-model field gun built by Schneider et Cie at Le Creusot to fire shells from the family of 75mm artillery ammunition used by the Canon de 75 modèle 1897 and the Canon de 75 modèle 1912 Schneider.^[1]

The Canon de 75 modèle 1914 Schneider bore a close resemblance to Canon de 75mm modèle 1912 Schneider. Thanks, however, to a somewhat longer barrel, the Model 1914 field gun weighed more than the Model 1912 field gun and could fire its shells out to greater distances. As French artillery authorities viewed the Model 1914 field gun as both less robust and less capable than the famous Model 1897 field gun, they replaced the former with the latter as soon as sufficient numbers of the latter became available. The Model 1914 field guns withdrawn from French batteries were, for the most part, made available to countries allied with France.

References

1. École Militaire de l'Artillerie, Historique et Organisation de l'Artillerie: l'Artillerie Française depuis le 2 Août 1914, (Fontainebleau: École Militaire de l'Artillerie, 1922), pages 120-121

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