2016
SU3802 : Beaulieu WWII anti-tank island: interpretation panel - Fire Station Lane
taken 8 years ago, near to Beaulieu, Hampshire, England
Beaulieu WWII anti-tank island: interpretation panel - Fire Station Lane
With the threat of invasion from Nazi Germany a reality, Beaulieu became a designated 'anti-tank island' in 1940, part of a nationwide linked network of Stop-Line defences designed to slow the advance of enemy forces. This interpretation panel provided by the New Forest National Park Authority on a pillbox in Fire Station Lane recalls Beaulieu's historic role during this time. Responsibility for the defences at Beaulieu fell to the Beaulieu Platoon of the Home Guard's 9th Forest Battalion under their 2nd in Command, Lt. Col. Sir Morgan Crofton. His detailed plans, maps and personal papers have survived, giving us a remarkable insight into accounts of those times, and the location of many of the defences, remains of which can still be found today. According to an amendment made to a map of the local defences in the Crofton collection, Beaulieu's status as an 'anti-tank island' was downgraded later in the war to that of 'road block'.
SU3802 : Beaulieu WWII anti-tank island: pillbox - Fire Station Lane (1)
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