Monument Gardens Guernsey

German Field Gun

The image is of a German field gun, one of four presented to the island at the end of the First World War and placed in these gardens in 1922. Two of the guns were scrapped in 1938. The remaining two were buried by the authorities in 1940, more or less where they now stand. As it was thought the Germans might bomb them from the air. They were excavated in 1978 by the Ancient Monuments Committee.

These guns have a calibre of 13.5 cms and are high-velocity, quick-firing weapon, made in 1917 and 1918 by Friedrich Krupp at Essen in Germany.