The heavy Italian guns were called "Bardia Bill"? Anyone got the story how they got their name?

http://www.kki.pl/piojar/brygad/bryg.../tobruk_e.html

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Dont forget 'Derna Dick'...

"In Tobruk I was attached to a General Hospital as C. of E. Chaplain. We were part of a Division sent to relieve the Australians. On the first night the Colonel took me down to the Harbour, where I received a baptism of fire from the shells fired by the German Big guns either side of Tobruk, nick-named by the troops ‘Derna Dick’ and ‘Bardia Bill’. Tobruk was deserted of course, shops were boarded up and the bombed out Church was still standing in the centre of the Square."

From Chaplain J. Littlewood.

www.jlittlewood.com

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"Watch that Fu*ker, he'll 'ave someones eye out!" King Harold at Hastings 1066.

Bardia and Derna were places the Axis held, so presumably the nicknames came about when the Allies were shelled from those locations. Just like the railway gun the Germans used to trundle out to shell the Anzio beachhead was dubbed Anzio Annie or the Anzio Express.

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Well, of course....!!

Thanx for the info, Guys!!

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