Ordnance QF 25-pounder

Users

  •  Australia
  •  Belgium: Used by Belgian Field Battery during WWII; also in Belgian Congo post-WWII
  •  Canada (also used in military funerals)
  •  Cyprus
  •  Czechoslovakia: used during WWII
  •  Egypt
  •  France: used by Free French and then in Indochina
  •  Indonesia: 144 from Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL)
  •  Fiji: replaced by 105mm howitzers in 2014
  •  Greece
  •  India
  •  Iraq
  •  Ireland (relegated to ceremonial role)
  •  Israel
  •  Jordan
  •  Kingdom of Italy: Captured examples and 1943–45 co-belligerent forces
  •  Kuwait
  •  Lebanon
  •  Lesotho
  •  Luxembourg (relegated to ceremonial role)
  •  Malta (relegated to ceremonial role)
  •  Mozambique: still in service in 2002
  •  Myanmar -50 in service
  •  Nazi Germany (Captured examples) Mk I designated 8.76 cm Feldkanone 280(e), MK II designated 8.76 cm Feldkanone 281(e).
  •  Netherlands: Used by Royal Netherlands Motorized Infantry Brigade “Princess Irene”, Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (1945–1949), Marines Brigade (1945–1949), Royal Netherlands Army (1945–1984)
  •  New Zealand (relegated to ceremonial role)
  •  Nigeria
  •  Oman: ~40 in 1976
  •  Pakistan
  •  Paraguay: 12 from South Africa
  •  Poland (Polish Armed Forces in the West)
  •  Portugal: Registration – Obus 8,8 cm m/43 (relegated to ceremonial role)
  •  Qatar
  •  Rhodesia
  •  Singapore (relegated to ceremonial role)
  •  South Africa (relegated to ceremonial role)
  •  South Vietnam: 122 in 1953
  •  Sri Lanka (relegated to ceremonial role)
  •  Suriname: 3 displayed during parades in 2016
  •  United Arab Emirates
  •  United Kingdom
  •  United States: during Tunisian Campaign, Battle of the Bulge and Pacific War
  •  Zimbabwe
  •  Kurdistan (1 seen in use by Peshmerga forces in Mosul)