StP Ruin, Mont de Neufchâtel, Pas-De-Calais. K.V.A. D1 Hardelot to Merlimont. PART 2

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StP Ruin, Mont de Neufchâtel, Pas-De-Calais. PART 2

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StP Ruine.

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Part 1 a battery of four 10cm le.F.H.14/19(t) guns in R669 casemates and accommodation tunnels.
Part 2 several large bunkers.

This is Part 2.

10cm le.F.H.14/19(t) guns.

R669 casemates.

StP Ruin, Mont de Neufchâtel, Pas-De-Calais. PART 2

23 October 2014

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The view over the hill.

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Somewhere here was/is a tunnel leading from around here under the hill to a Tobruk lookout on the other side of the hill.

The red line is the tunnel.

Plan of the tunnel leading to a Tobruk.

StP Ruin, Mont de Neufchâtel, Pas-De-Calais. PART 2

23 October 2014

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Heading into the bunker entrance.

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The square hole is the close combat embrasure with a machine gun protecting it. The oval hole I think was a defensive tube so a grenade could be rolled down it to kill an attackers?
The door is a 434P01 heavy steel door.

Plan of the R119.

434P01 door

StP Ruin, Mont de Neufchâtel, Pas-De-Calais. PART 2

23 October 2014

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Gaz danger connection with stucco Herous take space filter insert.

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Well thats a bad translation.

Plan of the R119.

Anti gas filter pump.

Anti gas filters.

StP Ruin, Mont de Neufchâtel, Pas-De-Calais. PART 2

23 October 2014

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This is a blanking plug.

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The idea of this plug is to keep the periscope tube clear from debris. I think there was no periscope ever in here though but it was ready for one..

Plan of the R119.

Periscope outside on the roof would have looked like.

StP Ruin, Mont de Neufchâtel, Pas-De-Calais. PART 2

23 October 2014

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Inside the periscope room.

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Looking towards the door a 434P01 a double door with four hinges and heavy steel plates.

Plan of the R119.

434P01 door.

StP Ruin, Mont de Neufchâtel, Pas-De-Calais. PART 2

23 October 2014

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Chart room.

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Nice drain in the centre, you do not normally see drains in several rooms of a bunker, most are only in the gas lock of the bunker.

Plan of the R119.

Plan of a sinkkasten.

A metal plate cover with a zinc pot to collect the water.

StP Ruin, Mont de Neufchâtel, Pas-De-Calais. PART 2

23 October 2014

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Communications room.

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Walls covered in asbestos sheets with a drain in the centre. On the right side is the cable inlets

Plan of the R119.

Telephone communications.

StP Ruin, Mont de Neufchâtel, Pas-De-Calais. PART 2

23 October 2014

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Wireless room, Funkraum.

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Through the square on the left wall is the commanders room and the door in front to the main close combat room.

Plan of the R119.

Funkraum.

Bunker phone.

StP Ruin, Mont de Neufchâtel, Pas-De-Calais. PART 2

23 October 2014

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Close combat room.

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This room had a machine gun covering the rear entrances to the bunker.

Plan of the R119.

Close combat with the sliding steel shutter closed off.

StP Ruin, Mont de Neufchâtel, Pas-De-Calais. PART 2

23 October 2014

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This is the Close Combat Embrasure covering the entrance..

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A 483P2 embrasure.

Plan of the R119.

Often this room was used as a store room, in an R119 the close combat room is very large.

StP Ruin, Mont de Neufchâtel, Pas-De-Calais. PART 2

23 October 2014

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Way out.

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The hinge for a Gittertür gate. The niche could be for a communicating speaking tube.

Plan of the R119.

Gate on a bunker.

Sprachrohr-mouthpeice.

StP Ruin, Mont de Neufchâtel, Pas-De-Calais. PART 2

23 October 2014

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R658, Abri & a cistern.

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I think this maybe the site of an R658 water cistern. It may have been remove.

Plan.

R658 water supply bunker. There was a pump on the left and a water reservoir on the right.

A water reservoir at Wn17 'Hillman' Colleville-su-Orne.

StP Ruin, Mont de Neufchâtel, Pas-De-Calais. PART 2

23 October 2014

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5cm KWK field position.

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This looks as though it was the site of a 5cm KwK gun in a field position. Usually these guns are in ringstands or R667 casemates.

Plan.

5cm KwK gun in a field position.

The foundations of a 5cm KwK gun in a field position.

StP Ruin, Mont de Neufchâtel, Pas-De-Calais. PART 2

23 October 2014

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This is the hill side viewed from across the valley.

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You can see the spoil heaps of earth from when the bunkers were being built. There seems to be more excavating than actual bunkers so more may have been planned.

StP Ruin, Mont de Neufchâtel, Pas-De-Calais. PART 2

23 October 2014

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The next set of bunkers an : -

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1 x R609 battalion & regimental headquarters.
2 x R622 twin group bunker.
1 x R119 battery commanders bunker.
These are all there but hard to access.
There may be another R622 around here somewhere?

StP Ruin, Mont de Neufchâtel, Pas-De-Calais. PART 2

23 October 2014

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R609 Battalion and Regimental head quarters.

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This is a large double bunker with (clockwise) : -
Top - Commander,Adjutant, Comms, Chart, Funk, Work, with two gas locks & two close combats.
Bottom - Non Comms, Crew, Officers, toilets, showers, fuel, heading?, ventilation.

R609 bottom.

R609 top.

Top - Work room or operations room.

Bottom - Crew quarters.

StP Ruin, Mont de Neufchâtel, Pas-De-Calais. PART 2

23 October 2014

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R119 Battery Commanders bunker.

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This is the same inside as the R119 we visited earlier. We did not even try and enter as it was very overgrown.
The entrance on the left is a cut and cover tunnel which attaches this bunker to the R622 some way behind.