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Date 23 August 2013

Event ID 963510

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/963510

The accommodation camp for the First World War coast battery is depicted on a War Department map dated 30 July 1915 (The National Archives WO 78/4417) to the W of the gun emplacements. It comprised a barrack block for 30 plus men, kitchen building, a canteen building with bread, meats stores and an Artificer workshop attached, an officer's quarters building, a telephone room, ammunition building or magazine to N. An earth closet building lay to the S and an engine house lay to the W.

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 23 August 2013.

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