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The GHQ Line (General Headquarters Line) was a defence line built in the United Kingdom during World War II to contain an expected German invasion. The British Army had abandoned most of its equipment in France after the Dunkirk evacuation. It was therefore decided to build a static system of defensive lines around Britain, designed to ...
On parts the GHQ line in Surrey, there are a number of pillboxes that are an infantry variant of the Type 28. These are the same size and shape as a Type 28 but have the main embrasure replaced with a Bren gun embrasure, Bren gun embrasures in the side walls and a rifle embrasure in the rear wall.
The GHQ Line (General Headquarters Line) was a defence line built in the United Kingdom during World War II to contain an expected German invasion. Part of the GHQ Stop Line B runs through the area south and east of Farnham through the valley of the River Wey and was designed to prevent a German invasion force from using the Wey Valley to reach ...
The GHQ line was intended to protect the capital and the industrial heartland of England. [50] Another major line was the Taunton Stop Line, which defended against an advance from England's south-west peninsula. [53] London and other major cities were ringed with inner and outer stop lines. [54] Military thinking shifted rapidly.
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On 20 May, 4th Gds Bde was transferred from 31st Division to GHQ Reserve, being replaced in the division by a new 94th Bde reconstructed from dismounted Yeomanry cavalry from the Palestine campaign. 4th Guards Bde was moved by bus and train to the Third Army area, where it was sent to work on the 'GHQ Line' of final defences in front of Barly ...
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Church Crookham lies on GHQ Line – the most important of a number of fortified stop lines constructed as a part of British anti-invasion preparations of World War II – and was at one of the most heavily fortified sections of that line. [9] [10]