Monument record 7450/0/1 - Kilsby Searchlight Battery

Documentary reference to WWII searchlight battery in this location

{1} Documentary ref to one 90cm, S/L. 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 (N of Grantham to to E coast) due to a change in the system of numbering in 1942. Prefixes of old numbers make it possible to cross ref them to location statements. Kilsby S/L at MGR 73/029902 had old number WT18A (425 Bty, 58 S/L Regt); new number 309B.

{4} Reorganisation of TRP. Areas: Site 25541 Kilsby becomes Site 25545.

<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

Jan 28 2020 12:19PM