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Maps 33-40. India: Bombay: Middle Ground Battery. (33) Top plan; (34) Masonry plan...

Catalogue reference: WO 78/4865/33-40

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This record is about the Maps 33-40. India: Bombay: Middle Ground Battery. (33) Top plan; (34) Masonry plan... dating from 1892-1899 in the series War Office and predecessors: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
WO 78/4865/33-40
Date
1892-1899
Description

Maps 33-40. India: Bombay: Middle Ground Battery. (33) Top plan; (34) Masonry plan (35) and (36) Sections; (37) Detail on number II [gun] emplacement for six-inch BL gun; (38) Detail of number I emplacement; (39). Gorge Works: sections; (40) Details of machine gun ports and iron railing round caponier, revised design. Reference table. Scale: (2), (4), (10) 1 inch to 20 feet. Compass indicators. All except 40 signed by Major S A E Hickson, Royal Engineers. Certified by Captain A J H Swiney, Royal Engineers, 12 June 1899. (40) Signed by Captain E C Spilsbury, Royal Engineers, 6 February 1892. Certified a true copy by Swiney, 12 June 1899. Some copied by Bhandari Ram, draughtsman, 21 April 1898.

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The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical condition
MS, coloured on tracing cloth
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C19809192/

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