mortar | Mortar (weapon) | mortar (weapon) | Rocky Mountain Trench | Fiachra Trench | Anthony Chenevix-Trench | William Le Poer Trench | 2-inch mortar | Type 94 90 mm Infantry Mortar | trench warfare | Richard Chenevix Trench | mortar and pestle | M106 mortar carrier | William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty | Trench warfare | Trench railways | Ryukyu Trench | Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty | Ordnance ML 4.2 inch Mortar | Mortar methods | Mariana Trench | M2 mortar | L9A1 51 mm Light Mortar | Herbert Trench | Frederick Trench, 1st Baron Ashtown | Downing Street mortar attack | David Trench |
The Stokes mortar was a British trench mortar invented by Sir Wilfred Stokes KBE that was issued to the British, Commonwealth and U.S. armies, as well as the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps (CEP), during the latter half of the First World War.
He was killed in an accident with a misfiring trench mortar during training at the age of 43 on 28 March 1942 near Ilkley.
On 3 August 1915 between Cambrin and La Bassée, France, a German trench-mortar bomb landed on the side of the parapet of the communication trench in which Second Lieutenant Boyd-Rochfort was standing close to a small working party of his battalion.
Ronald Lindsay Johnson (24 September 1889 to 29 May 1917) was serving as an Acting Captain and Divisional Trench Mortar Officer but was mortally wounded by a German shell whilst traveling from Zillebeke Lake.