WWII Gun marker

[rob love]

Here are some shots of some of the ones in the RCA Museum. I don't believe a gun would have carried two different crossheads (square, circle or triangle), but these were all we have. I believe, postwar, the number portions were removed and they were merely posts.
The swivel of the numbers is, of course, in the usual British fashion of being heavily engineered.

[Mike Cecil]

Rob,

As I understand it, the practice varied between nations. Brit guns in a two-gun Section had one gun with two round-head posts, the other gun with two square head posts.

Aust guns carried one of each, which meant when working in a two gun Section, a quick swap between guns was done to provide two posts with the same head type to each gun. This meant that guns could be moved between Sections or Troops without having the possibility of two guns in the same Section both having the same aiming post head shape.

Don't know what other Commonwealth nations did.

Mike

[rnixartillery]

I have a pair spare for sale (right side in picture) however I think they would need cutting to post over seas .

Rob....................rnixartillery.

[Rob Abbott]

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[CWO (ret) Gilles Aubé]

I want to thank all of you that gave me some answers.
I gest I was not clear enough.
I am not taking about the AIMING POSTS or the ZERO LINE MARKER, because they are put in place after the gun is at the gun position.
What I am trying to find out is
The GPO / TSM made the reccy and planted ‘GUN MARKERS ‘ where they wanted the guns to be situated.
When the gun number one comes on the gun position, he will stop his gun at this GUN MARKER in line with the gun telescope.
This is how we did it with the 105 and 155 mm guns, I am sure the 25 Pdr had something similar.
Merci à tous et j’apprécie votre appui.
Gilles

[CWO (ret) Gilles Aubé]

Here is what I was looking for thank to the Garrison Volunteers here it is,
[IMG]c:\Users\Gilles\Destop\Gun Markers2.docs[/IMG][/IMG]

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by CWO (ret) Gilles Aubé

Here is what I was looking for thank to the Garrison Volunteers here it is,
[IMG]c:\Users\Gilles\Destop\Gun Markers2.docs[/IMG][/IMG]

Hello Gilles, if you e-mail the photo to me I will attach it.

Please keep asking questions, that is what the forum is for.

HTH,

[Ed Storey]

Originally Posted by CWO (ret) Gilles Aubé

I want to thank all of you that gave me some answers.
I gest I was not clear enough.
I am not taking about the AIMING POSTS or the ZERO LINE MARKER, because they are put in place after the gun is at the gun position.
What I am trying to find out is
The GPO / TSM made the reccy and planted ‘GUN MARKERS ‘ where they wanted the guns to be situated.
When the gun number one comes on the gun position, he will stop his gun at this GUN MARKER in line with the gun telescope.
This is how we did it with the 105 and 155 mm guns, I am sure the 25 Pdr had something similar.
Merci à tous et j’apprécie votre appui.
Gilles

This is why I don't invest a lot of time in answering forum questions as "I am sure the 25 Pdr had something similar" does not cut it and simply shows that you need to do some research into how field artillery was laid during the Second World War. Just because things were done a certain way when you were in the 'guns' does not mean that they were done the same way 50 years prior. Sending out ambiguous shot-gun questions to a forum may provide the answer you want, but at the end of the day you really need to sit down, crack a few books and actually become proficient in the topic before you continue pestering people to do your research. I hope I am clear enough.

[Jakko Westerbeke]

And if you do just that, my experience is that on most forums you’ll get no useful* replies either because you know more about the subject than anyone else there already … Not saying this applies always and everywhere, of course.


* Many of the ones you do get tend to tell you things you already explained yourself, because the poster didn’t read your question thoroughly enough.