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155%u0008%u0018%u0019%u0004%u00096%u0006 I don%u2019t often carry Feedback, but I think that this may be of some interest. In Journal 48 (p49) Mike Dudgeon referred to a pair of antique field guns that were recovered from outside the AHQ at Habbaniya, refurbished and restored to use during the siege in 1941.1Air Mshl Macfadyen picked up on this (p58), noting that the guns eventually found their way to Cyprus where they still were in 1998, although their precise present whereabouts are uncertain. AVM Sandy Hunter has submitted the accompanying pictures of the guns %u2018guarding%u2019 the HQ at Episkopi. Assuming that they really are the ex8Hab guns, it is surmised that, having been retired from active service for a second time, ownership will have remained with AHQ Iraq until it became AHQ Levant in May 1955. In January 1956 AHQ Levant moved from Habbaniya to Nicosia where it set up shop alongside HQ MEAF which had arrived from Egypt in 1954. In May 1957 HQ MEAF moved to Episkopi and, if it had not already acquired the guns by %u2018pulling rank%u2019, will doubtless have inherited them when AHQ Levant closed down in 1958. -%u00061 On page 117 of The War That Never Was (Airlife, Shrewsbury, 1991), Mike%u2019s father, Tony Dudgeon, actually says that the guns had been outside %u2018the Officers Mess%u2019 %u2013 but, if that was the case, which Officers Mess?; there were several.