Cannon in Canada, Province by Province, Volume 2: Prince Edward Island

By Harold Skaarup

This second volume of Cannon in Canada is an informative and detailed synopsis of the carefully preserved and restored guns and artillery on display in the province of Prince Edward Island. The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery is represented by a long and distinguished line of gunners with historical

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lime Press LLC
• Release date: Jan 18, 2021
• ISBN: 9781953584892

Harold Skaarup

Major (Retired) Harold A. Skaarup, CD2, BFA, MA in War Studies, is a retired Canadian Army Intelligence Officer with an interest in Military History. He has served overseas with 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group in Germany, with the Candian Airborne Regiment and the United Nations in Nicosia, Cyprus, with the NATO-led Peace Stabilization Force in Sarajevo, Bosni-Herzegovina, with North American Aerospace Defence Command and Northern Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and with the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul, Afghanistan. He currently resides at his home in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Dedications

By each gun a loaded brand, in a bold determined hand.

For both of my grandfathers, Unteroffizier Frederick Christensen Skaarup and Sergeant Walter Ray Estabrooks, two gunners who fought on opposite sides of the line during the First World War, and for all those members of the Armed Forces of Canada whose primary task at home and abroad has been and is to keep us safe.

Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery Logo.

During my service as a soldier and officer in the Canadian Forces, I was taught to use the combat arms radio call sign Sheldrake whenever the message traffic being relayed referred to artillery. This designation has been replaced with the call sign Golf. The armour elements were Ironsides, now Tango, hence the titles of the companion volumes to this series. For the interested reader, Acorn was my call sign as the Regimental and later Brigade Intelligence Officer

Table of Contents

Dedications

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction – Cannon in Prince Edward Island

Epigraph

Chapter I

Artillery from Prince Edward Island in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (1914-1918)

Chapter II

Charlottetown, The Prince Edward Island Regiment Museum

Chapter III

HMCS Queen Charlotte

Chapter IV

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Battery and Victoria Park

Chapter V

Charlottetown, Survey Markers

Chapter VI

Kensington, Lennox Island, Miscouche, Montague, Mount Stewart, Souris and Tignish

Chapter VII

Summerside

Chapter VIII

Armoured Fighting Vehicles

List of Abbreviations

Afterword

Bibliography

About the Author

Index

Footnotes

List of Illustrations

Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery logo.

13-pounder 6-cwt QF Mk. I Field Gun, weight 6-0-13 (685-lbs), RGF J 1913, N. 290 on barrel, carriage plate 13-pr Mk. I.IP, L, 1917, GCR 1910, Reg. No. 10. This gun is preserved in the RCA Museum, CFB Shilo, Manitoba.

18-pounder QF Mk. II Field Gun, weight 9-0-0 (1,008 lbs), Royal Artillery Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

8-inch Breechloading Howitzer Mk. VIII, (Serial No. 1111), Canadian War Museum, Ottawa.

4.7-inch QF Mk. IV* B Gun on Mk. I, Travelling Carriage, Canadian Artillery, 1915.

Canadian Artillerymen training on a 6-inch 26-cwt Breechloading Mk. I Howitzer on a Mk. I carriage at Witley Camp, England, 1917.

60-pounder Breechloading Mk. I Gun, RCA Museum, CFB Shilo, Manitoba.

Bronze 6-pounder 6-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading (SBML) Gun.

Master-General of the Ordnance cypher.

King George III cypher.

Bronze 6-pounder 6-cwt SBML Gun, weight 5-3-21 (665 lbs).

9-pounder 8-cwt Muzzleloading Rifle, weight 8-1-6 (930 lbs), R-G-F No. 274, I, 1872, Firth’s Steel No. 2840 on the muzzle, PEIR Armoury.

9-pounder 8-cwt Muzzleloading Rifle, weight 8-1-6.

9-pounder 8-cwt Muzzleloading Rifle, weight 8-1-6.

9-pounder 8-cwt Muzzleloading Rifle, weight 8-1-6.

9-pounder 8-cwt Muzzleloading Rifle, weight 8-1-6.

9-pounder 8-cwt Muzzleloading Rifle, weight 8-1-6.

9-pounder 8-cwt Muzzleloading Rifle, weight 8-1-6.

9-pounder 8-cwt Muzzleloading Rifle, weight 8-1-6.

German First World War 7.92-mm Maxim Spandau MG 08 Machinegun.

German First World War 7.92-mm Maxim Spandau MG 08 Machinegun.

German First World War 7.58-cm leMW, captured by Canadians East of Arras, France, Sep 1918.

German First World War 7.58-cm leMW, (Serial Nr. 16634).

German First World War 7.58-cm leMW, (Serial Nr. 16634).

German First World War 7.58-cm leMW, (Serial Nr. 16634).

German First World War 7.58-cm leMW, (Serial Nr. 16634).

German First World War 7.58-cm leMW, (Serial Nr. 16634).

German First World War 17-cm mMW, captured by Canadians, April 1917.

German First World War 17-cm mMW, (Serial Nr. 848).

105-mm LG1 C1 Mk. II Light Gun.

Dundas 32/64-pounder 58-cwt Converted Rifled Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 58-2-0 (6,552 lbs), (RGF 401, I, 1854).

Dundas 32/64-pounder 58-cwt Converted Rifled Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 58-2-0 (6,552 lbs), (RGF 401, I, 1854).

Dundas 32/64-pounder 58-cwt Converted Rifled Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 58-2-0 (6,552 lbs), (RGF 401, I, 1854).

Dundas 32/64-pounder 58-cwt Converted Rifled Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 58-2-0 (6,552 lbs), (RGF 401, I, 1854).

Dundas 32/64-pounder 58-cwt Converted Rifled Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 58-2-0 (6,552 lbs), (RGF 401, I, 1854).

Dundas 32/64-pounder 58-cwt Converted Rifled Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 58-2-0 (6,552 lbs), (RGF 401, I, 1854).

Blomefield Cast Iron 24-pounder 50-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 47-3-4 (5,352 lbs), (Serial No. 6).

Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Sophia Charlotte; 19 May 1744 – 17 November 1818).

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 42-1-26 (4,758 lbs), (Serial No. 638), No. 1 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 42-1-26 (4,758 lbs), (Serial No. 638), No. 1 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 42-1-26 (4,758 lbs), (Serial No. 638), No. 1 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 42-1-26 (4,758 lbs), (Serial No. 638), No. 1 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 42-1-26 (4,758 lbs), (Serial No. 638), No. 1 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 42-1-26 (4,758 lbs), (Serial No. 638), No. 1 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 42-1-26 (4,758 lbs), (Serial No. 638), No. 1 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 43-1-12 (4,856 lbs), (Serial No. 2519), No. 2 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 43-1-12 (4,856 lbs), (Serial No. 2519), No. 2 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 43-1-12 (4,856 lbs), (Serial No. 2519), No. 2 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 43-1-12 (4,856 lbs), (Serial No. 2519), No. 2 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 43-1-12 (4,856 lbs), (Serial No. 2519), No. 2 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 43-1-12 (4,856 lbs), (Serial No. 2519), No. 2 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 43-1-12 (4,856 lbs), (Serial No. 2519), No. 2 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 42-2-4 (4,764 lbs), (Serial No. 641), No. 3 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 42-2-4 (4,764 lbs), (Serial No. 641), No. 3 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 42-2-4 (4,764 lbs), (Serial No. 641), No. 3 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 42-2-4 (4,764 lbs), (Serial No. 641), No. 3 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 42-2-4 (4,764 lbs), (Serial No. 641), No. 3 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 42-2-4 (4,764 lbs), (Serial No. 641), No. 3 of 5.

18-pounder 42-cwt Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon with Millar pattern breeching ring, weight 42-2-4 (4,764 lbs), (Serial No. 641), No. 3 of 5.

Blomefield 9-pounder Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 23-3-2? (2,662 lbs), (Serial No. 17), No. 4 of 5.

Blomefield 9-pounder Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 23-3-2? (2,662 lbs), (Serial No. 17), No. 4 of 5.

Blomefield 9-pounder Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 23-3-2? (2,662 lbs), (Serial No. 17), No. 4 of 5.

Blomefield 9-pounder Smoothbore Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 23-3-2? (2,662 lbs), (Serial No. 17), No. 4 of 5.

Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 23-2-7? corroded (2,639 lbs), Serial No. corroded, No. 5 of 5.

Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 23-2-7? corroded (2,639 lbs), Serial No. corroded, No. 5 of 5.

Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 23-2-7? corroded (2,639 lbs), Serial No. corroded, No. 5 of 5.

Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 23-2-7? corroded (2,639 lbs), Serial No. corroded, No. 5 of 5.

Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 23-2-7? corroded (2,639 lbs), Serial No. corroded, No. 5 of 5.

Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 23-2-7? corroded (2,639 lbs), Serial No. corroded, No. 5 of 5.

Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 23-2-7? corroded (2,639 lbs), Serial No. corroded, No. 5 of 5.

Queen Victoria in her coronation robes.

Dundas 32/64-pounder 58-cwt Converted Rifled Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 59---0 (6,558 lbs), (RGF No. 420, I, 1874), No. 1 of three unmounted.

Dundas 32/64-pounder 58-cwt Converted Rifled Muzzleloading Cannon, weight 59---0