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World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Date 19 August 2013
Event ID 963370
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/963370
The battery at Dalmeny was in existence by 1903, when record drawings were made of the battery's Defence Electric Lights (NT17NW 177), engine room, oils store etc. The drawings show the location of existing buildings at that time, including the gun emplacements. A note on one drawing shwos that the lights and their engine room etc had been built between May 1900 and September 1901 at a cost of £4807 1s 4d.
The battery as recorded comprised a pair of emplacements near the west end of the site, linked by a platform and probably overlying a buried magazine; the battery command post and DEL director were situated just to the west. In the eastern part of the site were the engine house, oil store and caretaker's quarters. There was no accommodation on site for the crew.
On the outbreak of war in 1914 the battery was armed with two 4.7-inch Quick Firing guns; on the revision of the defences of the Forth in 1916-17 the guns from Dalmeny were dismounted and moved to Inchcolm, in December 1916. The two Maxim .303 machine guns that were part of the defence of the battery remained at the battery.
The gun emplacements survive in the garden of a house called "The Forts".
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 19 August 2013.
