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Personalities behind The One o'clock Gun


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Admiral Wauchope R.N.
Early Photograph Niddrie House

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Professor Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland
Photograph courtesy of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Piazzi Smyth's house at 1 Hillside Crescent.

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Mrs. Jessica Piazzi Smyth
Picture of Mrs Jessie Piazzi Smyth

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John Hewat
Picture of John Hewat. John Hewat's Headstone.

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Chief Master Gunner Findlay R.A.
Chief Master Gunner Findlay R.A. Edinburgh Castle's first One o'clock gunner.
Governor's House.

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Colonel Edward Boxer R.A.

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Colour Sergeant Scott and Greyfriars Bobby

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Staff Sgt. Tam McKay M.B.E.
Property of the One o'clock Gun Association.
Tam with Gun.

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Corporal Moffat

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Bombardier Allison Jones R.A. (V.)
The first female gunner to fire a 25 pounder and the 105mm Light Gun.

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Sgt. James Shannon R.A. (V.)
District Gunner

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Dorothy Baxter

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Gunner Dean
District Gunner

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Jay Wilson
Future District Gunner
Jay Wilson with Sgt Shannon and Bombardier Jones.

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Blue Lovie
One o'clock Gun & Time Ball Association's official mascot

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Bombardier Edward McCarthy
Bombardier Edward McCarthy fired the One o'clock Gun from 1968 to 1972.

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John Peat
John Peat is one of the clockwinders


Gunners Roll

Click on the Gunner's Roll for a list of Edinburgh Castle's One o'clock Gunners from 1861 to the present day.




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