I'm a tanker, so I don't know field guns, but the little gun that sat in front of Legion #5 in Richmond, now lives on the front lawn of the White rock city hall. If I can remember, I'll snap a picture of it whem I'm down there on Friday. Otherwise, you'll have to wait a month, until I get back from vacation.
Actually that's a 25 pdr on the lawn in White Rock, and it used to be one of two in the Veterans section of Victory Memorial Gardens before some 'let's modernize this place' individual thought they needed a new home. City of White Rock got the one, and the 15 Fd. Arty Museum got the other.
The Br. 5 Legion gun was a huge 90mm AA gun of WWII vintage (1943, if memory serves) which was donated to a museum as the Legion was set to be closed/demolished...ooooh...more than a few years ago now. The Legion's first choice was to make it a donation to 12 SVC Bn out in Richmond to add to their vehicle park as another gate guardian, but the army couldn't come up with the expertise needed quickly enough by the deadline to get the barrel down from its welded position pointed skyward and into something more horizontal as suitable for towing (T&E mechs and breechblock were all welded shut.) Rumour has it that the museum involved in its recovery just inflated the tires after 30-40 years on the plinth and just towed it straight down the freeway! Must've been quite the sight.
Canada used the 90mm in troops of three or four as antiaircraft defense, with a radar and command and control trailer automatically controlling them. You'd have a wide-scanning search radar and a close quarters or fighting radar, and as the target was tracked, the troop of guns would automatically elevate and traverse to track the target. Pretty cool system in its day, but outclassed by the early 1960s by surface-to-air missiles. Lots were donated to Legions and ANAF/ VFW posts. Two were recently sold off by a guy in Quebec, and another still sits in the middle of some concrete circle in front of a Legion somewhere in Alberta or Saskatchewan.
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Pic. 1 is a 25 pdr Mk II (with flash hider) like the White Rock gun
Pic. 2 is a 90mm AA gun like the Legion gun, shown deployed (the Legion one had the wheel set with it displayed in half-assed travelling mode)
Pic. 3 is a closeup of the 90mm AA gun showing the fuzer and I think the Traverse indicator and manual Traverse station.
