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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
GIRL GUNNERS: THE WORK OF THE AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE AT AN EXPERIMENTAL STATION, SHOEBURYNESS, ESSEX, ENGLAND, 194320 year old ATS Private Eileen Kidney and 21 year old Corporal Susan Bevan at work on the Window Position Finder at the Royal Artillery Experimental Station at Shoeburyness. The glass of the Window Position Finder is engraved with a grid like graph...
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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
GIRL GUNNERS: THE WORK OF THE AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE AT AN EXPERIMENTAL STATION, SHOEBURYNESS, ESSEX, ENGLAND, 1943During a test firing of shells by the Royal Artillery at Shoeburyness, 20 year old ATS Private Joyce Shannon telephones an Observation Post to tell them when the gun is fired, so that they can look for the shell burst. According to the original caption...
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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
GIRL GUNNERS: THE WORK OF THE AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE AT AN EXPERIMENTAL STATION, SHOEBURYNESS, ESSEX, ENGLAND, 194317 year old Private Edith Jackson loads a 25 pounder shell into an anti-aircraft gun at the Royal Artillery experimental station at Shoeburyness, Essex. The shells were fired into the sea at high tide. According to the original caption, Edith worked in...
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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
GIRL GUNNERS: THE WORK OF THE AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE AT AN EXPERIMENTAL STATION, SHOEBURYNESS, ESSEX, ENGLAND, 194323 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...
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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
GIRL GUNNERS: THE WORK OF THE AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE AT AN EXPERIMENTAL STATION, SHOEBURYNESS, ESSEX, ENGLAND, 194321 year old ATS Sergeant Ray Chamberlen (left) and 19 year old Private Muriel Bartels at work on a Mirror Position Finder at the Royal Artillery experimental station at Shoeburyness. The Mirror Position Finder works as follows: the operators look...
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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
GIRL GUNNERS: THE WORK OF THE AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE AT AN EXPERIMENTAL STATION, SHOEBURYNESS, ESSEX, ENGLAND, 1943Women of the ATS stand by as a 25 pounder shell is fired at the Royal Artillery experimental station at Shoeburyness. The shell is being fired through a Velocity Screen, which will measure the speed of the shell. The shells are fired into the sea at...
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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
GIRL GUNNERS: THE WORK OF THE AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE AT AN EXPERIMENTAL STATION, SHOEBURYNESS, ESSEX, ENGLAND, 1943Women of the ATS jump down from the horse-drawn wagon which has carried them out onto the sand at Shoeburyness at low tide. Their job is to collect up shells which had been fired into the sea at high tide by the Royal Artillery. Each shell is marked so...
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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
GIRL GUNNERS: THE WORK OF THE AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE AT AN EXPERIMENTAL STATION, SHOEBURYNESS, ESSEX, ENGLAND, 1943ATS women dismantle Velocity Screens at Shoeburyness, following a test firing by the Royal Artillery. The shells are fired through the screens, which had been filled a grid of copper wire. When the shell is fired through the wire, the circuit is broken...
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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
GIRL GUNNERS: THE WORK OF THE AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE AT AN EXPERIMENTAL STATION, SHOEBURYNESS, ESSEX, ENGLAND, 1943A row of booted legs is all that can be seen of these ATS women as they load recovered shells on to a cart on the wet sand of a beach at low tide, at the Royal Artillery experimental station at Shoeburyness. The shells had been fired into the sea at...
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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
GIRL GUNNERS: THE WORK OF THE AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE AT AN EXPERIMENTAL STATION, SHOEBURYNESS, ESSEX, ENGLAND, 1943A group of ATS women step down from the horse-drawn wagon which has carried them out onto the wet sand at Shoeburyness to collect up shells after a test firing by the Royal Artillery. The shells had been fired into the sea at high tide.