The Fortifications of Alderney |
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A PRECARIOUS EXISTENCE | 30 |
THE KEY OF THE CHANNEL | 44 |
Copyright | |
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Albert Alderney Alderney Militia Alderney's anti-aircraft anti-tank armament armour Arsenal artillery batteries Atlantic Wall attack barbette barrack accommodation barrack block bastions Board of Ordnance Braye Braye Battery Braye Bay breakwater breech-loading Britain British built bunker caponier carriages casemated century Channel Islands Cherbourg Clonque coast defence coastal artillery coastal artillery batteries construction Corblets designed to mount ditch Doyle's Battery drawbridge embrasures emplacements enemy enfilade entrance Essex Essex Barracks Essex Castle Essex Hill fire Flak flank force Fort Albert Fort Clonque Fortress France French garrison German Grosnez guard room Guernsey guns harbour Houmet Houmet Herbé infantry strongpoints Jersey Jervois John Doyle John Le Mesurier land Longis Bay Longis Lines loopholed machine-gun magazine Mannez Mesurier mortars Mount Hale Mount Hale Battery Mount Touraille musketry parapet naval Nunnery officers original plans ports position proposed protection Quesnard ramparts resistance nests rifled Rochers Roselle Battery Saye ships sited Store Tourgis tower Victorian West Wall