The Field Artillery Unit

Well the first thing we did when we became a field regiment, we went from Norfolk down to Salisbury Plains for our initial firing camp. In order to, well to know what the guns sounded like for one thing and to note the accuracy of where the shells, how good you were laying the guns. A good gun layer, with a twenty five pounder, once they fired the first shell, a good gun crew could put the next shell in the same hole. Now in the First World War, it was a fantasy they had that if you saw a shell hole, jump in that one because another one will never pitch there. But, that's not so with good artillery. Or at least it may have been in the First War but in the Second World War it wasn't because we could do that.