jOhn, I'd guess, that like the Oz army, the British Catering Corps would be provided with personal weapons which provided the maximum possible self-defence against disatisfied customers. The SMG can be more easily hidden beneath the counter than the rifle.

Back with chucking around things that go BANG... In my time, I served the dear old L5 105mm Pack Howitzer, and while it could be carried about (in little bits, piece by piece) by the detachment, we would dearly have loved to be able to throw the thing around.. or away... with or without bayonets attached!

I see from the programme (thanks Barry T) King's Troop RHA 13 pounders were featured. It would have been nice to see them dragged around on the slippery slope of the Esplanade. I bet the horses loved that. Many years back I saw a Tattoo with (I think) mounted troopers from the Greys in a historical pageant just about come to grief in a great tangled heap of horseflesh on that slope.