Stokes' gun class

oil, Clark, 185 x 140 mm

'Stokes' gun class. Chap. LXI' typeset brc in border. Instructor, back view, at centre of painting, firing the ground-based Stokes gun, with four 'students' watching the missile in the air, and a fifth, bottom right corner, picking up one of four more missiles. Illustration on grey wash background, dark grey figures with brown tints, a dark grey hand-drawn border line and pastel yellow border.

p 325 [tr ed p 344] - 'To make sure of the arrested train required guns and machine-guns. For the first, why not trench-mortars? For the second, Lewis guns? Accordingly, Egypt chose two forceful sergeant-instructors from the Army School at Zeitun, to teach squads of Arabs in Akaba how to use such things.

'Their names may have been Yells and Brooke, but became Lewis and Stokes after their jealously-loved tools.'

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