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Thesaurus Term/Concept: EMBARKATION HARD

Identifier 143373
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note Special concrete loading ramps nicknamed 'hards' had been constructed along river banks, beaches and inlets to enable organised embarkation onto various types of landing craft to take place, irrespective of tides.

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Context Record
Monument Type MEX1041241 D-Day Embarkation Hard ‘NZ1 Main Dock West’ (destroyed), Tilbury Docks (Monument)
Monument Type MEX1041242 D-Day Embarkation Hard ‘NZ2 Main Dock East’ (destroyed), Tilbury Docks (Monument)
Monument Type MEX1041243 D-Day Embarkation Hard ‘NZ3 West Branch Dock’, Tilbury Docks (Monument)
Monument Type MEX1041244 D-Day Embarkation Hard ‘NZ4 Centre Branch Dock’, Tilbury Docks (Monument)
Monument Type MEX1041245 D-Day Embarkation Hard ‘NZ5 East Branch Dock’, Tilbury Docks (Monument)
Monument Type MEX1036413 Second World War D-Day embarkation hard, ‘NM Stansgate Abbey’, Marconi Sailing Club (Monument)
Monument Type MEX1036412 Second World War D-Day embarkation hard, ‘NS Stone Point’, River Blackwater (Monument)