A gunner keeps watch at the 9.2 inch gun coastal defence battery at Castle Priory, Tynemouth, 28 November 1940. H5799

A gunner keeps watch at the 9.2 inch gun coastal defence battery at Castle Priory, Tynemouth, 28 November 1940. H5799

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A gunner keeps watch at the 9.2 inch gun coastal defence battery at Castle Priory, Tynemouth, 28 November 1940.
A gunner keeps watch at the 9.2 inch gun battery at Castle Priory, Tynemouth, England, manned by 508th Coastal Regiment, Royal Artillery. This operation formed part of British preparations to repel the threatened German invasion of 1940

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28/11/1940
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Imperial War Museums
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