Site of Second World War ‘Diver’ Site No. N44, E of Wrayswick Farm, Southminster (EHER 21321)

Now destroyed. The site of a Second World War heavy anti aircraft (Diver) Battery in the Diver Box North of Wraywick Farm. It was armed with eight 3.7-inch Mark IIc guns on 28th August 1944.

November 2008. World War Two Defences in Maldon survey. A report, compiled in 1996 from wartime documentation, lists the ‘Diver’ anti-aircraft gun sites in East Essex in summer/autumn 1944. Site No. N44, East of Wrayswick Farm is listed twice. On 13 August it is recorded at Military Grid Reference M432176 and two weeks later, on 28 August, at M432177. The latter entry states that it had eight 3.7 inch Mk IIc guns but no manning is given. <1> Either of the two map references places the site just East of Wrayswick Farm. An aerial photograph taken in May 1946 shows a Nissen hut nearly half a mile to the East of the farm at TQ 9899 9919. By 1960, this had gone. <2> <3> <4> NRHE data transfer: no new information. NRHE summary description: Site of a Second World War heavy anti aircraft (Diver) Battery in the Diver Box North of Wraywick Farm. It was armed with eight 3.7-inch Mark IIc guns on 28th August 1944. <1>