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Date 6 November 2013

Event ID 966390

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/966390

A Fire Command Post [F.C. Post (South)] is shown on a map of the island (The National Archives WO 78/5161) connected by underground passageways to four position finding cells (P.F.cell) number nos.1-4. The Fire Command post would have been for the 9.2-inch gun to the south (NT28SE 5.06).

In the Second World War a telephone exchange building and to the south of it a building annotated 'Off's Qtrs (officer's quarters) and No.4 P.F. cell is annotated 'Shelter' (The National Archives WO 192/251).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 6 November 2013

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