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Irish Army Sniper teams practicing marksmanship skills in the Glen of lmaal.
Photos: Cpl Johhny Tuft
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Irish Army Sniper teams practicing marksmanship skills in the Glen of lmaal.
Photos: Cpl Johhny Tuft
@irishdefenceforces
Presumably German Air Defences
Port Winston at Arromanches, the Mulberry harbour a British type of temporary harbour developed in World War II to offload cargo on the beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy.
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Pictured in Arbroath Academy in July, 2004 was Mark Cooper SJN Marshall Arts Academy, coaching a class in self-defence and kick boxing.
Masjid-E-Tooba is called the defence Mosque because the Pakistan Defence Officers Housing Society of Karachi contributed the money to build it.
Northgate Tower (13th c) and St. Anne's Bastion (14th c), Pembroke Castle. Taken from South Quay car park
Irish Army Sniper teams practicing marksmanship skills in the Glen of lmaal.
Photos: Cpl Johhny Tuft
@irishdefenceforces
During the 1930’s the Bawdsey peninsula became home to the first Chain Home Radar Station and training school for Britain’s new top secret weapon 'Radar Direction Finding' Equipment, this ground breaking installation required additional security and led to the development of a series of Defence improvements of which the Bawdsey Emergency Coastal Defence Battery was an integral part of the Emergency Coastal Defence Programme (ECDP) despite initial concerns that any ECDP Battery positioned at Bawdsey would be liable to flooding, the fact that the peninsulas coastline was so vulnerable led to a Battery being built and in use by February 1942 even though the threat of Invasion had now passed.
Two Naval BL 6in MkVII Guns on PVII Mountings, No.1 Gun manufactured in 1918 and No.2 Gun in 1918, which had a 180 degree firing arc able to be trained on any point at sea almost due North to due South. Both Guns were salvaged from World War One Battleships broken up on decommissioning after the war. The Emergency Coastal Defence Battery consised of two Gun Emplacements with reinforced concrete roofs (removed sometime after 1971) with attached Magazines and Machine Housing. On either side of the Coastal Battery were two Coastal Artillery Searchlights (CASL) with two Projectors MkV (AA) 90cn Reflectors and a 22kw Lister 38hp diesel engine, placed in concrete Emplacements, which have since been lost to coastal erosion.
The Coastal Battery followed the basic layout, an enclosed structure with concrete roofs which included Crew Shelters and Ammunition Stores all of which were connected by covered passages, the entire Emplacement was designed with Small Arms Loopholes to provide a 360° arc of Defensive Fire. The Coastal Battery Observation Post was a concrete Slit Trench between the two Guns probably with a buried Landline to the Fire Control Tower which was a four story building, the basement was prone to flooding, and appears not to have been used, the ground floor was used as the Armoury, this was Defended by all round Loopholes. The first floor was the Switch / Telephone Room, the top floor housed the Rangefinder Equipment (a Naval Barr and Stroud 9ft, Type FQ 11 No 1544, Magnification x 28) and also had a 360° field of view, which is covered by an Armoured Steel Roof that was originally supported by corner posts.
Gunners from 322 Battery Royal Artillery were transferred from other Defences at Foulness and once operational the Coastal Battery would have had at least 80 Gunners on duty at any one time. In December 1943 with the threat of Invasion now highly unlikely and with trained manpower being desperately needed elsewhere, the Gunners of 322 were transferred to other duties leaving only one Officer and seven Regular Gunners to run the Coastal Battery assisted by members of the Home Guard.
Geographically the Coastal Battery is very isolated which Military planners recognised, the Coastal Battery Gunners knew this and knew that in the case of an attack the expectation was that they should Defend the Coastal Battery to the last man.
The following Defence Mechanisms are known to have been in place in support of the Coastal Battery :-
> 2 x Unrotated Projectile (UP) Anti-Aircraft Rocket Projectors, an experimental Naval Weapon which had proved totally unreliable and ineffective in operation prompting its withdrawal from Royal Navy service. One was located to the South of the Coastal Battery with the second being located to the West
> Northwest of the Coastal Battery there were two Weapon Pits both designed to hold ten Men (one armed with a Bren Light Machine Gun) and a Spigot Mortar
> West of the Coastal Battery there was a single Weapon Pit also holding a ten Men Crewing another Spigot Mortar and a single MG-30 Solothurn Machine Gun (the predecessor to the German MG34)
> South of the Coastal Battery in the Martello Tower were a further 11 men one of whom was armed with a Bren LMG.
> A further 22 Personnel armed with Rifles and two more Bren Light Machine Guns formed a Mobile Reserve patrolling out of reserve Shelters
> The nearest significant number of men in support were based at Bawdsey Manor whilst all Defensive Posts were manned by volunteers from the 5th Battalion, the Suffolk Home Guard.
Within an area behind the Coastal Battery which was populated with trees there were a series of Nissen huts used as Barracks, a Mess, Storage Buildings and other Camp Buildings.
Geographically the Coastal Battery is very isolated which Military planners recognised.
Pictured: HMS Argyll hosts a Defence Engagement evening for high ranking officials and dignitaries whilst alongside in Kota Kinabalu.
HMS ARGYLL ARIVES IN KOTA KINABALU
On Thursday 17th January 2019 HMS Argyll and her ship's company arrived in the picturesque destination of Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia. During her three day stop she will not only host a VIP Defence Engagement evening but will also host a schools visit and organise a variety of adventure training for the ship's company.
Credit: LPhot Dan Rosenbaum
HMS Argyll
This photo shows part of a Flak Tower, or Flaktürme, in German. It's one of three such towers that was built in Berlin. Each had its accompanying smaller command tower nearby. The Flak towers were essentially a 20th century fortress. They contained things like anti-aircraft gun platforms, radar towers, observation posts, hospitals, air raid shelters etc. After the war they became hostels for the homeless.
Members of the Irish Defence Forces during taking part in a MOUT training exercise as part of the 59th PNCO Course.
Photos: 105 Sqn Photographic and Airborne Imagery
British Civil Defence representative Nicholas Ridsdale came from York to pay his respects to those who lost their lives in the tragedy. It was the third time he had attended the ceremony
Photograph by Helen Varley
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Irish Army Sniper teams practicing marksmanship skills in the Glen of lmaal.
Photos: Cpl Johhny Tuft
@irishdefenceforces
SPIC MACAY is a national movement to promote indian classical music and culture among youth. It works with children and students in schools and colleges. Every year 3000+ concerts and performances conducted in schools and colleges in India and beyond. This movement started over 30 years ago, initiated by Dr. Kiran Seth and has contributed immensely to light the spirit of culture among children.. Long live such movements !!