SIR - I am very interested in your gunners picture (Letters, August 2). I once had an original of this picture, and another showing the unit, the Malvern Battery, at camp in a hurricane.
The sub-section shown had won the House of Lords and Commons prize at Shoeburyness. The prize was £13 and a silver sword.
A member of a well-known Malvern "gunner" family the Garbutts is in the sub-section, and the one-time landlord of the Railway Inn, Malvern Wells, is, I think, seated on the end of the barrel. He was known as "Puffy" Haynes.
The hand-spikes laid on the floor are identical to hand spikes used with 25-pounder field guns in the Second World War.
They were used to lever the gun in or out of position on difficult positions.
S G T BEARD,
Malvern Link.
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