Monument record TQ 75 SE 441 - Second World War searchlight position.

The site of Second World War searchlight battery no. BH02 126 at Boughton Monchelsea. It was manned by 302 Searchlight Regiment RA under the command of 34 Searchlight Regiment. The battery was operational by September 1941. Searchlight sites typically comprised a small ring-ditch to provide the crew with shelter during an air raid, a predictor emplacement for calculating the height and range of targets, a light anti-aircraft machine gun pit, a generator and hutted accommodation for the crew. (1)

Site of a single gun (Diver) light anti aircraft emplacement and searchlight emplacement at Brishing Court. This was armed with a 40mm gun, which was moved to an extant searchlight emplacement between 24th-26th June 1944, as part of the fourth deployment of 210 guns to the Kentish Gun Belt. It was manned by 4th Light Anti Aircraft Regiment of 27 Brigade, and by 346 Searchlight Battery of 36 Searchlight Regiment.(2)

<1> CBA Twentieth Century Fortifications in England Supporting paper AA/1 Searchlight Sites in WWII A sample List (Bibliographic reference). SKE15307.

<2> Dobinson, C., Operation Diver : England's Defence Against the Flying Bomb, June 1944-March 1945 (Monograph). SWX23707.