K & C 029 - EmplaceDment Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 10/19/2011
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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You are looking for a camo nano. Only room for a log, so BYO writing tool and a log tool would be required. Please replace the cache as you found it.

Emplacement Reserve

Emplace Reserve was a proposed WW2 Gun Emplacement of 3 x 5.25inch Dual Role Coast Artillery / Anti Aircraft Artillery Guns for the protection of the Port of Fremantle and the Southern approaches. 

A similar configuration was actually emplaced at Buckland Hill Leighton and a third was planned for Cape Peron.  The Batteries were allotted the following Numbers:

  • 802 BTY Leighton        803 BTY South Beach (Hamilton Hill)        804 BTY Cape Peron

Only 802 BTY was actually commissioned in 1947.  803 Bty had its Guns emplaced but they were not proofed and the supporting buildings were never completed as the threat to Australia had receded.  804 BTY Guns never left the Stores Branch.
 
In 1963 all Gun sites were closed completely and the Guns at 802 and 803 were disposed as scrap.
 

This remaining gun pit has been excavated and is now exposed on a hill. The entire structure now in evidence would have originally been buried to the roof line, and would have been invisible except for the roof.

It was probably in the mid to late 1990's that the City of Cockburn elected to salvage one of the gun emplacements as a form of "memorial".  This is what you see today.

 

 

 

Acknowledgement: Thanks to Mr. Don Rae, the Curator of ArtilleryWA for this information.

 

 

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