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World War One Audit of Surviving Remains

Date 5 July 2013

Event ID 962250

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type World War One Audit of Surviving Remains

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/962250

The 6-inch emplacements and their magazine below are as described. Drawings on War Office file (The National Archives WO 78/ 5184) show the plan of the battery and arrangement of rooms in the underground part. The rooms directly between and below the battery where the shell store and cartridge store. Opposite those rooms across a passageway and under the road were the crew shelter for 24 men. At either end of the passageway there is a store rooms, one for lamps and a R.A. store.

Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) and RCAHMS (AKK) 5 July 2013.

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