Girl Gunners- the work of the Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Experimental Station, Shoeburyness, Essex, England, 1943 D12692
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Girl Gunners- the work of the Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Experimental Station, Shoeburyness, Essex, England, 1943
A 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.
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