Artillery Salute Protocols

[David Dunlop]

In all the years I have watched a Field Artillery Battery provide a formal salute at an event, I have only ever seen a misfire once, and I cannot recall at all how it was handed. It was a 25-pdr salute in Winnipeg at a Decoration Day event in Winnipeg in the 1950's. It was my Dad and Uncle that actually noticed the misfire. I was too busy bouncing up and down with each shot and cloud of smoke!

Can the Gunners weight in on this? Is there a procedure in place to cover this sort of thing, since I would assume the gun that misfired would have some sort of wait period before clearing the misfire and reentering the salute.

David