Service History
The gun was adopted in 1911 and began entering service in 1914.
The weapon served primarily with the Indian Mountain Artillery in the northwest portion of British Indian territory (on what is now the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan) and participated in British-led military action in that theatre.
It also served in Mesopotamia and the Salonika front during World War I.
It was superseded at the end of World War I by the QF 3.7-inch mountain howitzer.
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