Monument record 7445/0/1 - Lamport WWII Searchlight Battery

{1} Documentary reference to a 90cm searchlight. No information of current survival if any.
Information taken from 425 Searchlight Battery 58th Searchlight Regiment War Diary (PRO ref: WO166/3270). NGRs converted from wartime grid references. Northants sites are part of a group of 24 for the 425 S/L Battery, others being in Warwickshire and Leicestershire.

{2} Documentary reference to Searchlight battery. Appendix of War Diary details location of every S/L in their area (north of Grantham to the east coast) due to a change in the system of numbering in 1942. Prefixes of old numbers make it possible to cross reference them to location statements. Lamport S/L at MGR 73/202952 had old number WT.116B (ie 425 Bty, 58 S/L Regt.); new number 306D.

{4} Reorganisation of TRP. Areas: Site 25532 Lamport becomes Site 25536.

<1> Armishaw A., 2000, Letter, (checked) (Letter). SNN101924.

<2> Armishaw A., 2001, Letter Re War Diary of 32 AA Bde. 1942, (unchecked) (Letter). SNN101927.

<3> 1941, 425 Searchlight Battery, 58th Searchlight Regiment: Organisation of Battery Area, 1941 (PRO ref: WO166/3270), (checked) (Document). SNN108917.

<4> Appendix A: Reorganisation of Seachlight Battery Area, (checked) (Document). SNN108918.

<5> 425 Searchlight Battery Plans of Searchlight Clusters and Control and Plotting Posts, (checked) (Document). SNN108919.

Record last edited

Jun 26 2013 12:55PM