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| Hob Uid: 1499225 |
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| Location : Suffolk West Suffolk Kedington |
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| Grid Ref : TL7000045700 | |
| Summary : The site of a Second World War searchlight battery at Kedington, thought to have been located near to Ruse's Farm. It was manned by 33 Searchlight Regiment. The battery was operational from October 1941. It formed part of a network of searchlights named Area DN02, which along with another such area (DN01) formed a defensive belt in the Essex-Cambridgeshire-Suffolk borders area and on into Hertfordshire. 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. | |
| More information : The site of a Second World War searchlight battery at Keddington (sic), situated at NGR TL 700 457/ MGR M 151643. It was manned by 33 Searchlight Regiment. The battery was operational from October 1941. It formed part of a network of searchlights named Area DN02, which along with another such area (DN01) formed a defensive belt in the Essex-Cambridgeshire-Suffolk borders area. (1) The parish where the site is located is Kedington. The locational details provided in source 1 place the site near Ruse's Farm. (2-3) 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. |
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Monument Number 1499225