Ca12 Onival, StP.Gruppe Cayeux, K.V.A. 'E1'. Picardy.

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Warrant Officer 1, MSM, T. Drew, Royal Army Service Corps Dunkirk 1940

Ca12 Onival.

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Ca12 Onival.

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1 x Peilstand/Vf.
1 x R600b.
2 x Schnabelstand.
1 x 7.5cm Pak 97/38.
1 x 5cm KwK 38.

R600b fir the 5cm KwK 38.

Schnabelstand.

7.5cm Pak 97/38.

Ca12 Onival.

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Ca12 Onival.

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Ca12 Onival.

1945

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Ca12 Onival.

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The beach running up to Cayeux and the Somme estuary.

Teller mine on a tree trunk.

More beach defences.

Rommel and his Asparagus.

Ca12 Onival.

21 February 2014

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Ca12 Onival.

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The first Schnabelstand set into the side of the road just outside Onival.

Schnabelstand could also be used as a machine gun pillbox.

Ca12 Onival.

15 April 1946

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Ca12 Onival.

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This 1947 photo shows the two Schnabelstand (red squares) and linking trenches gradually being filled in. It looks as though there was a sort of command area set back up the slope (yellow square) where there look to be some bunkers with trenches connecting them. I cannot see where the other bunkers and guns were laid out.

Ca12 Onival.

21 February 2014

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Some bits and pieces in the field behind the first Schnabelstand. It may be the foundations of a dismantled house?

There looks as though there was a house there?

Ca12 Onival.

21 February 2014

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The first Schnabelstand.

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There was a trench system running along this bank as a defence and so troops could move from position to position.

An elevation plan of a Schnabelstand.

Observation.

Ca12 Onival.

21 February 2014

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The first Schnabelstand.

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The front sticking out of the bank and a good view of the camouflage, the bunker would be cast with flat concrete face and a mix of asbestos mixed with concrete would be daubed on to create camouflage breaking up its clean lines.

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Ca12 Onival.

21 February 2014

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The first Schnabelstand.

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The trench and rear entrance tunnel to the bunker.

Ca12 Onival.

21 February 2014

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The first Schnabelstand.

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Trench leading into the bunker.

Ca12 Onival.

21 February 2014

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The first Schnabelstand.

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Looking into the main room.

Ca12 Onival.

21 February 2014

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The first Schnabelstand.

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The viewing slit with the centre section has been broken away for some reason.

Ca12 Onival.

21 February 2014

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The first Schnabelstand.

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The doorway into the control room.

Ca12 Onival.

21 February 2014

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The first Schnabelstand.

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Looking back into the main room.

Ca12 Onival.

21 February 2014

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The first Schnabelstand.

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The square holes in the walls are for wooden blocks to be set into them (we would now call the a sort of Raul Plug) and maybe a wall covering in wood nailed to them making it a warmer and more homely place.