Denis Winter's WWI book "Death's Men" says on page 120 that gunners got extra pay and rations. Can anyone produce any chapter and verse for this? I have not come across the idea elsewhere but as a very short term and peacetime member of the Royal Regiment would have welcomed anything extra!
Daggers

In June 1915 there was a bit about the rate of pay in the local newspaper:

The Holme Valley Battery.

At a recruiting meeting held early in the Battery’s existence, Lieutenant Gay gave examples of the rates of pay for the lower ranks. He said the men, Gunners and Drivers, would receive 1s. 2½d. a day, raising by rank as follows: acting bombardier 1s. 7d., bombardier 2s. 2d., corporal 2s. 6d., sergeant 3s. 2d., and sergeant major 4s. 2d. The allowances were paid as follows: Separation allowance for a wife was 12s. 6d. a week, and for a child an extra 5s., and 2s. 6d. for all other children up to the age of fourteen. A man could also make a allowance to his wife from his pay, and if he allotted sixpence a day the government would double it. During training married men billeted at their own homes would receive 4s. 0½d., an unmarred man 3s. 2½d., if he was billeted elsewhere he would receive his normal pay and the billeting people would receive 2s. 6d.

I don't know how this compares with everybody else. I have seen a few different rates of separation allowance, it must have been improving from time to time, especially during the first year.

Tony.