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Rosneath

Searchlight Battery (Second World War)

Site Name Rosneath

Classification Searchlight Battery (Second World War)

Alternative Name(s) Ops No 1940 C121 (Pko13)

Canmore ID 360151

Site Number NS28SE 354

NGR NS 25576 81886

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Rosneath
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Dumbarton
  • Former County Dunbartonshire

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Note (17 October 2018)

Nothing can now be seen close to the S corner of an arable field of a World War Two searchlight emplacement which is visible on an RAF air photograph (CPE/Scot/UK/256 Part I/5050) taken on 11 August 1947 and also noted in a document held by The National Archives at Kew (WO 166/7369). It was one of about 150 searchlight batteries that were constructed to protect the industries in the centre of Glasgow and along the banks of the River Clyde from aerial attack by the Luftwaffe during WWII.

Information from HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK) 17 October 2018.

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