Monument record TQ 87 NE 1186 - Diver Box Light Anti Aircraft (Diver) Battery D2

Site of a Second World War light anti aircraft (Diver) battery in the Diver Box at Grain Marsh on the Isle of Grain. It was armed with four 40mm guns on July 26th 1944. (1) The Isle of Grain was surveyed and mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. Despite using war-time aerial photographs, this site could not be identified. These Light Anti Aircraft (LAA) Diver sites were typically rapidly put into action and left very little trace once removed. (2)

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

<2> RCHME/EH/HE Aerial Photographers comment, English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project (Verbal communication). SKE58727.