Second World War Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Clacton C3: Jaywick" (EHER 16878)

Site of Second World War heavy anti aircraft battery at Jaywick, which formed part of the defences of Clacton. It was armed with four 3.7-inch guns with GL Mark II radar in 1942, when it was manned by 325 Battery of the 71st Royal Artillery Regiment. It is now built over

1996: Anti-aircraft battery - 4 gun emplacements, now built over <1> <3> July 1998. Documented in contemporary records as "C3 Clacton: Jaywick", a WWII Heavy Anti-Aircraft gun site at Military Grid Reference M 595321. Equipment and manning at the site is documented at various dates <4> On 20 May 1942 and 22 Jun 1942 It was armed with four 3.7-inch guns with GL Mark II radar in 1942, when it was manned by 325 Battery of the 71st Royal Artillery Regiment. An aerial photograph taken in July 1946 shows the gun site on the outskirts of Jaywick. Four octagonal emplacements, each with internal ammunition recesses, can be seen. In the centre is the concrete command post, the pattern of which appears to conform to a type DFW 55402 <1>. Each emplacement has earth banked up around the walls 150 yards to the S approximately seven Nissen huts can be seen. The gun site is positioned within the inner of two rectangular road layouts with little in the way of building development. It would appear that these roads were built before the war in preparation for a housing development. <4><5> Site visit November 1996: The housing development, continued after the war, has now covered the area and there is no sign of any of the WWII structures. <6> No new information included from NRHE data transfer.