— Va07,Saint-Valéry-en-Caux

Saint-Valery-en-Caux west of Dieppe east of Le Havre set with steep cliffs each side and Va07 is situated on the east cliff (upstream) of the town.
LMS steamers Princess Maud and Duchess of York evacuating troops from St Valery under shell-fire, by Norman Wilkinson, c1945. Depicts the London, Midland & Scottish Railway Irish Sea passenger steamers in war service. They are close inshore, with water spouting as shells land in the sea near by. A Royal Navy motor torpedo boat sails towards the coast, while a tug steams in the opposite direction. In the background are Royal Navy destroyers and cliffs, partially obscured by large columns of smoke. The painting represents the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from St Valery-en-Caux during the fall of France, May and June 1940. Signed by the artist at bottom right. Created for The LMS at War series.

The car park is a good place to see the monument and all the east side of St-Valery.
3/Flak.Abt.20.
2 x L409A AA.
1 x R621 Gruppe shelter.
1 x L410A AA.
1 x L411 AA.
3 x 2cm Flak 30.
1 x 7.5cm Pak AT gun.
Some tunnelling (Stollen).

L409A for 3.7cm Flak.
Although these bunkers were designed as 3.7cm Flak, here they used 2cm Flak guns.

L409A for 3.7cm Flak.

L409A for 3.7cm Flak.
September 1943 this date is placed over an extra ammunition space added to the side of the entrance.

L409A for 3.7cm ready ammunition space.

Monument and trenches.
This is the second L409A with a trench system.

L409A for 3.7cm Flak No.2.
These flak positions may or may not have personnel bunkers underneath? We could not tell.

L409A for 3.7cm Flak No.2.
To the left is the entrance when the gun is in plaice, shuttering is placed across the emplacement this is the only way in and out.

Record Breaker.
Dieudonné Costes (14 November 1892 - 18 May 1973) was a French aviator, well known for long distance and record breaking flights.

Tobruk for the R621 group shelter.
An R621 bunker would hold the crew of the guns.

R612's Tobruk defence.

A better picture of the Tobruk, the metal machine gun scarf ring is still there.

This may be an entrance to some tunnels??

L410A is the bunker and there is usually an open emplacement for a 3.7cm AA gun on the top. Here it may only be the bunker?

L410A Bunker
The two entrances and ventilation holes in the wall.

L410A Bunker.
Close combat window covering the two entrances.

L410A bunker detail.
Detail of how the bunker was built with different shuttering giving an almost camouflage effect. Here it was the use of screwed up concrete paper sacks.

Drainage in front of the bunker entrance.

L410A entrance.
Steps down to the gas lock on the right and the close combat embrasure looking at you.

L410A bunker gas lock.
Passageway through the gas lock. The door possibly would have been an 434P01.

L410A crew room.

L410A crew room with the close combat defence embrasure, door to exit and second door to the second crew room.

L410A door to second crew room it would have been a 19P7.

L410A second crew room

L410A second crew room.
View to the:
Left door - NCO's room.
Right door - ventilation room.
Second right - to the gas lock.

L410A NCO's room.
None Commissioned Officers room.

L410A ventilation room.

Va07, Saint-Valery-en-Caux

L410A close combat defence room.

L410A ammunition room.

L410A close combat defence room
A defence to cover the two entrances, here a machine gun, rifleman or a Schmeisser sub-machine gun could stop an enemy getting in.

L410A close combat defence embrasure.

L410A second rear entrance

Saint-Valery-en-Caux Va08.
The view across from Va07 with Va08 in the middle and Va09 on the opposite cliff.

Set into the cliff is a casemate.

Casemate for a 7.5cm Pak gun.
The centre door gives access to the two ammunition rooms with square windows to allow ammunition to be passed to the gun. On the right is a Tobruk to cover the casemate from infantry attack. The whole front has been cut away for some obscure reason.