This 18-pounder Canadian artillery piece was used by the 39th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery during the Hundred Days campaign. In August 1919, Canadian soldiers presented it to the citizens of Mons, Belgium as a symbol of friendship, claiming that it was the last Canadian gun to fire before the Armistice.

This field gun was lent to us by the City of Mons and the Mons Memorial Museum, in memory of the Canadian soldiers who liberated the city on November 11, 1918.

© City of Mons Collections
CWM 2018-0020-0004-Dm

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