Monument record TQ 87 NE 1184 - Diver Box Diver Battery Ts22

Site of a Second World War heavy anti aircraft (Diver) Battery in the Diver Box north of Rosecourt Farm. It was armed with eight 3.7-inch Mark IIc guns, and was occupied from 28th August 1944. On 22nd September 1944 it was manned by 566 Battery of 169 (Mixed) Anti Aircraft Regiment, qnd was equipped with BTL Predictor Radar, and SCR584 and GL Radars. From 24th November 1944 it was manned by 486 Battery of 141 (Mixed) Anti Aircraft Regiment. It formed part of 28 Anti Aircraft Artillery Brigade.
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This site appears to share its location with a Second World War heavy anti aircraft battery at White Hall Farm (NMR Monument:1473621) in use from 1942 to 1946. This also had a GL Radar and was mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. This site was noted to have three phases of gun emplacement development with two separate groups of four guns and additional larger guns added to north and NE edge of the western group. It is possible that the features described above are a combined sites which evolved through the war, recorded separately in the wartime records (2)

<1> Dobinson, C., Operation Diver : England's Defence Against the Flying Bomb, June 1944-March 1945 (Monograph). SWX23707.

<2> RAF, 1946, RAF 106G/UK/1444 4017 01-MAY-1946 (Photograph). SKE58737.