This gun was one of eight used by the Transvaal Staatsartillerie. The first six were ordered in 1895 and a further two in 1896. Grouped into two mounted batteries of four guns each they formed the: "2de en 3de Rijdende Battery".

The gun is easily identifiable by its horizontal sliding breech block systems, which opened to the right. A cartridge case was used to help in obturation, i.e. to prevent the escape of gases to the rear. This also allowed for a rapid rate of fire, which, combined with its use of smokeless powder, made it a true early QF gun. It has a ridged carriage with no buffer.

This specific gun (No.2) is the only known survivor of its type in the world. The exact date and location of its capture is not certain.

75mm Krupp QF (Feldkanone L/24)
This gun was similar to the 7.7-cm Feldkanone M96 adopted by the German Army in 1896 and was designated as the “7.5cm Krupp: Feldkanone L/24” in Krupp price lists. The Transvaal ordered six of these quick firing field guns before 1895. Some sources state that the six were still at sea during the Jameson Raid. Gustav Preller however wrote that the guns were in fact in the country during the raid, but that their ammunition was still in transit and therefore they could not be used. A further two guns were ordered shortly before the raid (November 1895) and after their arrival the eight guns were re-grouped into two mounted batteries of four guns each to form the "2de en 3de Rijdende Battery" (2nd and 3rd mounted batteries).

The Transvaal 75mm was equipped with a newer half turn, screw operated square horizontal sliding breech block which opened to the right. Instead of having a friction tube vent similar to that of the Free State Krupp, this gun’s breech block was equipped with an axial mounted firing pin. A brass cartridge case was used for obturation, i.e. to prevent the escape of gases to the rear, which also allowed for a quicker rate of fire, i.e. quick firing. The gun was still mounted on a rigid carriage without a recoil buffer system. Wheel brakes and a foldable trail spade were used to assist in recoil control, but these were not really adequate. Elevation was affected by means of a geared hand wheel protruding at an angle behind the breech. The carriage was light and sturdy and stood up well to the rigours of the African veldt.

At the outbreak of the war one battery of guns was sent to the Natal Front, while the second was sent to the Western Front. Here the guns saw extensive service during most of the sieges and battles around Mafeking, Ladysmith and Kimberley. Later they were also employed in the early battles in the Eastern and Western Transvaal. They were captured or discovered destroyed at:

According to War Office document WO32/8111 four of the eight guns were found: one at Paardeberg, two by Babbington at Zandfontein and Buisfontein and one by Bindon Blood on the Tautesberg (Steelpoort Valley). Post-war statements by officers of the Staatsartillerie indicated that the remaining four were all destroyed. Two or three were found blown up at Hector Spruit, while Captain Du Toit indicated that another QF gun was destroyed at Haenertsburg in October 1900. A carriage and a piece of a gun were found there in July 1902, but it is uncertain whether these actually belonged to the 75mm Krupp QF. In his war diary Fritz Rothman, a burgher who attached himself to the artillery, states that three Krupps were destroyed at Hector Spruit and that a single Krupp gun was blown up at Haenertsburg on 18 October 1900. Unfortunately he gives no indication of the calibres. Pieces of another gun were found on the Tautesberg in April 1901, but it is possible that these pieces belonged to the gun found by General Bindon Blood at the same place. WO32/505 makes mention of another possible gun of which only fragments were found near Reitz in January 1902, but the type and make of gun were doubtful.

Except for the Paardeberg gun, which was sent to England aboard the Templemore on 6 August 1900, the barrels of three other captured guns (serial no. 1, 4 & 5) were shipped from Cape Town on 30 December 1903 aboard the SS Avondale Castle. On the same vessel were five Krupp carriages, ten Krupp wagons (serial no. 7 & thirteen without numbers) and fourteen Krupp limbers (serial nos. 1, 4, 5, 9, 11, 14 & four without numbers). It is not certain which of these were Transvaal Krupp and which were Free State Krupp equipment. Nine days before this vessel, another, the SS Dunolly Castle, also left Cape Town with ten Krupp wagons, eleven Krupp limbers (serial nos. 3, 8, & nine without numbers) and eight Krupp carriages (serial nos. 1, 3, 8 & five without numbers). Two more Krupp limbers (no. 2 & 11) were shipped from Durban on 10 October 1903 aboard the SS Inyati. In England the trophy guns and carriages were allotted to the following recipients:

Only one of these, No.2, the Paardeberg gun, is known to have survived and today it can be seen mounted at the New South Wales Memorial in Observatory Park, Sydney, Australia. This gun is in dire need of restoration and has already lost its wheels.