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Canada: Nova Scotia: Halifax. The Gun Wharf: store for reserve armament. Plans, sections,...

Catalogue reference: WO 78/3685

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This record is about the Canada: Nova Scotia: Halifax. The Gun Wharf: store for reserve armament. Plans, sections,... dating from 1905 in the series War Office and predecessors: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
WO 78/3685
Date
1905
Description

Canada: Nova Scotia: Halifax. The Gun Wharf: store for reserve armament. Plans, sections, elevations and site plan. Notes on construction. Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet and 1 inch to 4 feet; site plan: 1 inch to 25 feet. Compass indicator. By Corporal R L Lessel, Royal Engineers. Signed by Lieutenant Colonel W D Conner, Commanding Royal Engineer, 8 May 1903. Signed by Lieutenant Colonel F G Bowles, Commanding Royal Engineer, 16 November 1905. To accompany letter of General Officer Commanding regarding regular forces on Canada to Inspector General of Fortifications dated 16 May 1903. This plan was drawn after the construction of the store. It is a manuscript version of the printed plan at WO 78/3966, which was made before the store was built.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
F 496
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Dimensions
68 cm x 99 cm
Physical condition
MS, coloured on tracing cloth
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Administrative / biographical background
Publication note(s)
Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 1314
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3272629/

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