12½-pr Maxim-Nordenfeldt QF gun No.4115.
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In 1895 the British South African Company imported two of these guns for use in the ill-fated Jameson Raid into the Boer Transvaal Republic. One gun, serial No.4116, was captured by the Boers from the invaders in January 1896. The second gun, No.4115, was left behind at Bulawayo as all its parts had not arrived in time for the invasion. Both guns saw service during the 1899-1902 Boer War, meeting on opposing sides in the Metse Mashoane Valley in February 1900.
After the Boer War No.4115, returned to Northern-Rhodesia where it later took part in the battles in DOA. In 1918 this gun was captured by the Germans when Von Lettow-Vorbeck invaded Northern-Rhodesia. After its capture the Germans damaged the breech and tipped the gun over an escarpment in front of the military police camp at Kasama. After the Great War No.4115 was retrieved and mounted in front of the officer’s mess at the same camp. Several years later it was found by a former crew member in the abandoned camp. After he restored the gun it was mounted outside the Kasama Government offices. The gun’s current whereabouts is unknown.
At Kasama:
