GIRL GUNNERS: THE WORK OF THE AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE AT AN EXPERIMENTAL STATION, SHOEBURYNESS, ESSEX, ENGLAND, 1943
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23 year old ATS Junior-Commander Joyce Bathurst looks through binoculars as she times anti-aircraft shells with a stop watch from the moment of firing until the burst. She shouts the results out to a colleague who records the information. She has been working here at the Royal Artillery Experimental Station at Shoeburyness for about 5 years. According to the original caption she "had just taken her BSc at University College London when war broke out. She was asked to volunteer for her present job and after a month's OCTU came to the Experimental Station where she has been ever since".
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