Gunner (Gnr) is arank equivalent toprivate in theBritish ArmyRoyal Artillery and theartillerycorps of otherCommonwealth armies.^[1][2] The next highest rank is usuallylance-bombardier, although in theRoyal Canadian Artillery it isbombardier.^[3] Historically, there was an inferior rank,matross.

There is a bronze statue of a gunner called "The Ammunition Carrier" as part of theRoyal Artillery Memorial inHyde Park Corner, commemorating theRoyal Artillery Regiment's service and memorializing its losses inWorld War I. The other bronze figures are "The Captain" (at the front), "The Driver" (at the left side), and "The Fallen Soldier" (at the rear) and it is topped with an elevated stone howitzer. The statues were done byCharles Sargeant Jagger and the stone monument was designed byLionel Pearson. The gunner statue, along with the officer, the bombardier and the unknown soldier, are characters in Charlie Fletcher'sStoneheart.^[4]

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