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Stokes Trench Mortar - 3 inch

The Stokes Trench Mortar was developed by an Englishman, Sir Wilfred Scott-Stokes who was the managing director of Ransome & Rapier of Ipswich, England a mechanical engineering firm. Although Stokes did not have a military background, he quickly grasped the need for a "portable gun" who could keep up with the German Minenwerfer soon after war started in Europe. Stokes correctly reasoned that such a weapon would be valuable for reducing the deadly machine gun nests that were beginning to wreak much havoc on the Western Front. Stokes had a working prototype of his trench mortar ready for testing in December of 1914, barely four months after the war started.

The Stokes Trench Mortar and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Specifications

Stokes Trench Mortar
Caliber: 3 inch
Barrel Length: 51 inches
Weight:
Tube: 43 pounds
Base Plate: 28 pounds
Bipod: 37 pounds
Total: 108 pounds
Effective Range: 750 yards
Maximum Range: 800 yards

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Date
Journey's End		British soldiers	1930
The Fighting 69th	James Cagney	Private Jerry Plunkett	1940
The Fighting 69th	Alan Hale Sr.	Sergeant 'Big Mike' Wynn	1940

Television

Show Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Air Date
Anzacs		Australian soldiers		1985
Journey's End		British soldiers		1988

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Release Date
Battlefield: 1918	"Stokes Mortar"		2004
The Great War 1918			2013
Verdun		unusable	2015
Battle of Empires: 1914-1918	"Stokes Mortar"		2015
Battlefield 1		can be equipped on Mark V tanks and armoured cars	2016

Anime

Title	Character	Note/Episode	Air Date
Saga of Tanya the Evil	Francois Republic soldiers	Episode 1, 10	2017

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-The '''Stokes Trench Mortar''' was developed by an Englishman, Sir Wilfred Scott-Stokes who was the managing director of  Ransome & Rapier of Ipswich, England a mechanical engineering firm. Although Stokes did not have a military background, he quickly grasped the need for a "portable gun" soon after war started in Europe. Stokes correctly reasoned that such a weapon would be valuable for reducing the deadly machine gun nests that were beginning to wreak much havoc on the Western Front. Stokes had a working prototype of his trench mortar ready for testing in December of 1914, barely four months after the war started.
+The '''Stokes Trench Mortar''' was developed by an Englishman, Sir Wilfred Scott-Stokes who was the managing director of  Ransome & Rapier of Ipswich, England a mechanical engineering firm. Although Stokes did not have a military background, he quickly grasped the need for a "portable gun" who could keep up with the German ''[[Minenwerfer]]'' soon after war started in Europe. Stokes correctly reasoned that such a weapon would be valuable for reducing the deadly machine gun nests that were beginning to wreak much havoc on the Western Front. Stokes had a working prototype of his trench mortar ready for testing in December of 1914, barely four months after the war started.
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-| ''[[The Fighting 69th]]'' || [[James Cagney]] || Private Jerry Plunkett || || 1940
+| ''[[Journey's End (1930)|Journey's End]]'' || || British soldiers || || 1930
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-| ''[[The Fighting 69th]]'' || [[Alan Hale Sr.]] || Sergeant 'Big Mike' Wynn || || 1940
+| rowspan="2"|''[[The Fighting 69th]]'' || [[James Cagney]] || Private Jerry Plunkett  ||  || rowspan="2"| 1940
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+| [[Alan Hale Sr.]] || Sergeant 'Big Mike' Wynn ||
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-==Television==
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-| ''[[Verdun (VG)|Verdun]]'' ||  || unusable  || 2015
+| ''[[The Great War 1918]]'' || || || 2013
+|-
+| ''[[Verdun]]'' || || unusable || 2015
+|-
+| ''[[Battle of Empires: 1914-1918]]'' || "Stokes Mortar" || || 2015
+|-
+| ''[[Battlefield 1]]'' ||  || can be equipped on Mark V tanks and armoured cars || 2016
+|-
+|}
+===Anime===
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+| ''[[Saga of Tanya the Evil]]'' || Francois Republic soldiers || Episode 1, 10 || 2017
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 [[Category:Gun]]
 [[Category:Mortar]]