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121 Coastal Artillery Battery

Details:

Title

121 Coastal Artillery Battery,

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Emery Point,

Nation of service

Australia,

Service

Army,

Service branch

Artillery,

Unit

121 Coastal Artillery Battery,

Alternative unit name

Emery Point Battery, M Battery,

Parent unit

Darwin Fixed Defences,

History

Gunners from this Battery joined the 9 Heavy Battery. On 28 August 1942, they were renamed Darwin Fixed Defences Heavy Artillery. The Unit used two six inch BL Mark XI Counter bombardment guns at Emery Point.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Australia, Army, Emery Point Battery, M Battery, Darwin Fixed Defences, 155mm guns, 6 inch guns, Mark XI guns, 121 Coastal Artillery Battery,

File type

image/tiff,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Library & Archives NT,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/26767 [PictureNT : PH0291/0003, Emery Point, J. Ridgewell Collection],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847592,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847947