WWII Gun marker

[CWO (ret) Gilles Aubé]

We need to create some WWII 25 Pdr Gun marker, does anyone has a picture and or description?
Gilles

[Mike Cecil]

Hi Gilles

'Gun marker'? Not sure what you are meaning: perhaps the 'Post, Aiming, Crosshead, C No.1, Circular Head, Mk.III' and the 'Post, Aiming, Crosshead, C No.1, Square Head, Mk.III' which were carried on the mounting brackets on the face of the shield when not in use?

Mike

[CWO (ret) Gilles Aubé]

.There most have been a gun marker to stop and show in what direction to point the gun.
With the 105mm we had a gun marker to show us where to stop near the telescope.
Gilles

[edstorey]

Perhaps it is one of these items illustrated in the Identification List for Ordnance, Q.F. 25-Pr., C Mk. II - 1943?

99B. Plate AW - Aiming Posts.jpg

100. Parts List.jpg

[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