Les Amis du Suffolk Regiment

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The fortified site HILLMAN Description of the strong points

Bunker Overview

Schéma du site

 

Legend :

1 => Memorial 6 => Kitchen
2 => Well 7 => Infantry HQ named "Hunter" ( Col Krug)
3 => Water tank                          8 => Northern Guard
4 => Bridge                                 9 =>  HQ "B"  (Art.)
5 => East Guard                       10 => South Guard

Defense:

The site includes a dozen concrete bunkers connected by trenches. It is surrounded by two belts of barbed wire and a minefield. The role as a Regimental Command Post explains the absence of artillery bunkers. It seems that the defence of the site has been provided by a field gun in emplaced in concrete and not particularly by machine-gun nests.

Architecture:
The site has three blockhouses "standard" two-type Regelbau 608 shelters for PC, however different the corridor to the dome and Regelbau 605 shelter for guns. Other bunkers have various functions including  an observation post and a well that appears to have been made specifically, and three Tobruk type H58c emplacements.