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Battery position of 387 Coast Defence Battery (522 Coast Regiment). 2 x 6in guns and 1 x 4.5in howitzer. Three officers and 80 other ranks. Cassini ref. 994056. [Document gives position as 'Abbotsbury Castle', which is further north - for this 994076 would be a more likely reference: however, 994056 is given in more than one documentary source and 993056 and 994057 in others]. In 1944 the battery was under 'care and maintenance'.
(Source: Document 1943)
Air photograph shows two gun emplacements, with a further rectangular structure (probably of the battery) adjacent to the N.
(Source: Air Photograph 1948/05/07)
Two 4in guns of 387 Battery. Cassini ref. 996058. Part of Fixed Defences, Portland.
(Source: Document 1941/03/21)
2 x 4in naval guns of 387 Coast Battery RA. Cassini ref. 996058. Guns mounted by 7.8.40
(Source: Document 1940/08)
Type of site | COAST BATTERY |
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Location | Area close to Peasons Plantations above strip lynchets, to the E of Buller's Way, Abbotsbury. |
Area |
Abbotsbury, Dorset, England |
Grid reference |
SY 5628 8465
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Removed |
Materials | Unknown |
Recorder | |
Defence grouping |
Dorset coast defences - Defences of the Dorset coast line and immediate hinterland. |
Photographs |
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DOB site reference: | S0016256 |
Reference |
1943 Standing Operation Instruction 1943 Hampshire and Dorset District Standing Operation Instruction 1944 Locations and Armament of Coast Artillery 1948/05/07 SY 5685/1 (fr.0092) 1941/03/21 Operation Order No.1 1940/09/15 50 Division 'G' War Diary 1940/08 387 Coast Battery RA War Diary 1941 210th Infantry Brigade War Diary 1940/08/05 Operation Order No.17 |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 |