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Toward Battery
Machine Gun Post (Second World War)
Site Name Toward Battery
Classification Machine Gun Post (Second World War)
Canmore ID 352365
Site Number NS16NW 16.17
NGR NS 12258 68220
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/352365
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Dunoon And Kilmun
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (20 October 2016)
Nothing is now visible of this machine gun post, the site of which lies within an area of ground that has been cultivated since the end of the Second World War. It stood on the N side of the battery, between the fences that formerly defined the limits of the enclosure containing the gun-battery itself and its outermost perimeter. The post is not depicted on an RAF aerial photograph dated 10 February 1941 (RAF 614.C), but it is shown on a slightly later photograph dated 21 October 1941 (RAF 7977.C309) as a short length of trench measuring no more than 5m in length from WNW to ESE with what was probably a sandbag wall along its NNE edge. The post is also depicted on a site-plan contained within the Fort Record Book (National Archives: WO 192/113) which details the ‘Infantry Defence Posts’ within the Toward Battery. This emplacement was ‘No. 8 Post alternative to No. 7’, which housed a Hotchkiss machine gun.
Visited by HES Survey and Recording (JRS, AK, AMcC) 20 October 2016.
