I have just completed (as much as anything on the site can be termed complete) a new page on Coast Battery Locations UK. It is not live on the...
Cudmore Grove was in the news today regarding a landslide. In WW2 it was heavily defended with Coastal Guns and pillboxes many of which have...
Afternoon all, My great uncle Stanley Brudenell served in several Army units throughout the entire Second World War. He joined the TA (5th Bn,...
After visiting Bombay / Mumbai in 2017 a good friend is compiling an article on the Imperial era fortifications of Bombay, where the threat came...
I have come across a reference to a location for Ryder Flares within a coastal gun battery. I'm assuming they were some kind of flare to...
Based West Mersea Essex 2x4.7 inch guns in encasements with search lights. 1940-1942 Located on Victoria Esplanade. I am seeking to expand on the...
Hello all Having received my fathers records from Glasgow, I am compiling a 'timeline' of his service. So, his records show he was posted on...
I am fiddling around with some writing, and as part of the research I am trying to find out what the WE would have been for a heavy coastal...
My husbands father served with the above Coastal Regiments from Dec 1940 - Aug 1945 which is quite easy to decipher. 14.08.45 he was posted to...
Remembering Today Casualty Details | CWGC COX, JOHN CYRIL Rank: Gunner Service No: 1542484 Date of Death: 24/12/1941 Age: 27 Regiment/Service:...
I recently ran across an inventory of equipment for a coastal defence artillery regiment, dated 1952, that indicated one of the batteries had an...
Please can anyone tell me which regiment 19 coast battery was with between 1941-45? And any other relevant information, where were they etc....
I just found this website when researching my father - John James Kavanagh - war documents I have. I have a handwritten note from a Major J.P....
Remembering Today Casualty Details | CWGC HALL, JOHN BERNARD Rank: Gunner Service No: 845419 Date of Death: 10/05/1945 Age: 31...
I have been researching Gunner Henry (Harry) Robertson, 1820024, 9 Coast Regt., Royal Artillery who died aged 32 on 19th July 1943. He was...
Hello My grandfathers army service record states that he was posted to Norway (Harstad)with the N.W.E.F. between the dates of 06/04/1940 and...
Hi All On my grandfather's service record it has him posted for a short time after serving roughly five months in the 2 TBatt (which I presume is...
Hi guys I have received my relatives war record and it says he spent most of his time in the 15th Medium Regt , RA. Is there anywhere I can find...
Remembering Today Casualty Details | CWGC ALLEN, REGINALD ALBERT GEORGE Rank: Lance Bombardier Service No: 1636793 Date of Death: 09/12/1947 Age:...
Remembering today: Casualty Details | CWGC Ronald Frederick Williams Gunner 1427413, 8 Coast Regt. Died between 1-2/10/1942 Commemorated: SAI WAN...
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