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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 76 NE 340 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Command post, formerly the HMS Wildfire, Lower Lines, Chatham |
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Summary
The former Nore command bunker, later HMS Wildfire. A large complex of underground passages and chambers, west of Medway Road. Dug in 1937 and used throughout the Second World War. In the 1960s it became a training facility, HMS Wildfire, before being decommissioned in the 1980s.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7702 6923 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ76NE |
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| Parish: | GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- COMMAND POST (Modern - 1937 AD to 1960 AD)
- TRAINING BASE (Modern - 1960 AD? to 1989 AD?)
Full description
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The former Nore command bunker, later HMS Wildfire. A large complex of underground passages and chambers, west of Medway Road. Dug in 1937 and used throughout the Second World War. In the 1960s it became a training facility, HMS Wildfire, before being decommissioned in the 1980s (1-3).
<1> Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy, Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites (Index). SKE6445.
<2> Wessex Archaeology, 2004, Proposed Mid Kent College Lower Lines Chatham Kent: Archaeological Desk-based Assessment (Unpublished document). SKE12633.
<3> Navy, 01/01/45, Nore Command War Diary (Collection). SKE14388.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Index: Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy. Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2004. Proposed Mid Kent College Lower Lines Chatham Kent: Archaeological Desk-based Assessment. |
| <3> | Collection: Navy. 01/01/45. Nore Command War Diary. |
Related records
| TQ 76 NE 1260 | Parent of: East emergency exit of Former Naval command Centre (Monument) |
