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World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Date 5 July 2013
Event ID 962251
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/962251
The 4.7 QF (Quick Firing) gun 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, a shelter for 8 men and the R.A. store. Opposite and across the passageway is a larger crew shelter for 27 men. At either end of the passageway are two small stores, a lamp store and a small arms stores.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) and RCAHMS (AKK) 5 July 2013.
