St David's Battery
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St. David's Battery, also known during wartime as the "Examination Battery", was a fixed battery of rifled breech-loader (RBL) artillery guns, built and manned by the Royal Garrison Artillery and the Royal Engineers, and their part-time reserves, the Bermuda Militia Artillery and the Bermuda Volunteer Engineers, part of the Bermuda Garrison of the British Army.
No. 2 9.2-inch gun at St. David's Battery (or the Examination Battery), in 2011. Two 6 inch guns are visible behind.
Bermuda Militia Artillery warrant officer and NCOs at the St. David's Battery, ca. 1944. Left-to-right: Bdr. A. Caisey, Sgt. Maj. R.C. Smith, and Bdr. C.E. Esdaille.
One of the 6 inch Breech Loading (BL) guns, with the two 9.2 inch BLs visible beyond, and the barracks to the right, in 2011
St. David's Battery in 1942
The BL 9.2-inch Mk IX and Mk X guns were British breech loading 9.2-inch (234 mm) guns of 46.7 calibre, in service from 1899 to the 1950s as naval and coast defence guns. They had possibly the longest, most varied and successful service history of any British heavy ordnance.
Mk X gun facing north at Breakneck Battery on Gibraltar January 1942.
Mk IX & X barrel design
Breech view of a Mk X gun in 1946
Forward gun on HMS Cressy