The shell is fired from the 15 cm medium howitzer (15 cm s.F.H. 18) and is fitted with a ballistic cap, two bi-metal driving bands and a base fuze. The abbreviated designation of the shell "Gr. 19 Be", is included in the stamping in the base of the fuze. The shell and ballistic cap are painted the normal dark olive green and stencilled in black. The overall length of the capped shell is 23.5 inches and the weight, filled and fuzed, is approxima-tely 95 lb. 5 oz.

The shell is of the pointed type and is fitted with a base adapter. The head of the shell is coned near the nose and has a flat tip. The cavity for the bursting charge is larger than that in a piecring shell and has a wooden block occupying the reduced forward end. The light ballistic cap, welded to the shell, is shaped to correspond with contour of the shell and has a rounded head. A steel exploder container is screwed into the base adap-ter from the underside. The weight of the empty shell is 83.5 lb. The body is hardened and tempered throughout, the V.D.H. figures averaging about 320.

The bursting charge, weighing 7 lb. 2 oz., is contained in a cardboard carton and is of the block type comprising 4 pressed pellets. The two upper pellets are of T.N.T./wax, the percentage of T.N.T. and wax in the first being 90/10 and in the second 95/5. The two lower pellets are of T.N.T., the base pellet being formed with a cavity to receive the exploder container. The carton containing the charge is cemented to the wall of the shell cavity.

The gaine carried in the exploder container above the fuze, is a Zdlg. C/98 filled picric acid (for details see Pamphlet No. 6).

The base fuze is screwed into the enlarged base end of the exploder container and is provided with a setting plug and setting graduations in the base for two optional delays. Further details are not yet available.