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I would guess your Grandad (at least in 1918) was on ‘four-fives’, not 18-Prs.
Here's something else too... I think you
might have misunderstood the purpose of the
Barrage Table. This isn’t a record of what has been fired, it’s a prearranged timetable for the No 5 Gun, for what, by WW2, would be called a “programme shoot”. The likelihood is that it is the artillery part of a set-piece battle plan for 3 Div, worked out by the CRA. The plan would have been passed down to the Brigades and broken down further, eventually resulting in data for each gun - the ‘Barrage Table’. The same form was used in WW2, although by this time it was called a “Gun Programme Form”. This would have been issued to the ‘No 1’ (the NCO in charge of each gun detachment), so it’s very possible that Corporal Stevenson was the “No 1” on No 5 Gun.
It gives firing data for the gun for each time slot, giving range (in the elevation column), switch (called angle in WW1), angle-of-sight and propellant charge. Judging by the fact that the range is increasing gradually throughout the shoot, it probably is part of an actual barrage, that is, a defensive moving belt of fire that the infantry can advance behind.
Rob
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