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Monument record TQ 97 SW 1089 - Second World War Anti Aircraft Battery, Ripney Hill Farm

Summary

WWII Anti Aircraft Battery. Summary from record TQ 97 SW 69: Anti-aircraft defences: designated si by the war office (1940+)

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Grid reference	TQ 94263 73441 (point) Centred
Map sheet	TQ97SW
County	KENT
District	SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish	MINSTER-ON-SEA, SWALE, KENT

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Type and Period (1)

ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY (Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Full Description

WWII Anti Aircraft Battery. Photographs (1,2).

(Note: Wessex Polygon Boundary does not cover the whole site and needs amending)

Description from record TQ 97 SW 69:
Ripney Hill Farm. Battery of a 4x3.7-in. AA guns, originally mobile, later with improvised diamond-shaped holdfasts for fixed guns, thought to date from 1943/4 as part of Operation Diver intiiative. Holdfasts only remain. (1)

<1> Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy, Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites (Index). SKE6445.

<1> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9794.

<2> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9499.

Sources/Archives (3)

<1> SKE6445 Index: Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy. Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites.
<1> SWX9794 Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 3006. print.
<2> SWX9499 Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 3062. print.