Anti-invasion defences – Hound Point Battery
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The battery at Hound Point had first been proposed before the First World War and was completed in December 1914.
It originally mounted two 6-inch BL Mk VII guns, which were replaced in 1916 by 2 x 12-pdr (Naval) 18cwt guns moved upriver from the Middle Defences.
By June 1915 it was protected by a dozen blockhouses, arranged in two lines, inner and outer, each of six. As in most cases elsewhere, the blockhouses were made of timber.
Map extract showing the defences round the Hound Point Battery, and the cross-section of a blockhouse.
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