Long Guns and Tall Tales. Left to right. Curly, the author's curly coated retriever; 'Atlantic Bob' South, who slew nine brent geese with one shot from a 12-bore in 1943; 'Admiral' Bill Wyatt, aged 85, famous shore-gunner, punt builder ans shipwright' Ted Milgate, champion oyster-man and shore-gunner, with a visitor at Mrs Hone's in 1943.
Mrs Hone is behind the bar.

Comment by James Wentworth Day. Sailing and Social Club, West Mersea. From East Anglian Magazine, February 1971 page 147.
Date: 1943