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3 April 1944

Summary

Battery construction or maintenance. Supplies and rationing. Communications and signals

Location Details

Guernsey; St Helier

Diary Entry

3 April 1944 Channel Islands Sea Defence diary

Weather: wind from 135°, 9 metres per second. From 3 April the following are housed in permanent fortifications: the Sea Commandant's command post with telephone exchange and artillery wireless station; Channel Islands Naval Signals Officer with naval wireless station and Guernsey teleprinter office; emergency power and diesel generating sets supplying all power for the signals officer and the Sea Commandant's command post.

St Helier net barrier unserviceable; repair duration uncertain. Naval Artillery Battalion 604 begins its third troop-specialist course.

Source of Information 

Roll 2422, scan 0815, original page 31.

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