I looked at Spurn Point "derelict" stuff, great piccies.
But it mentions only anti-shipping coastal battery features. Confused me, my Mum (Muriel Wheeler) only ever spoke of AA batteries. I'm sure these are chalk and cheese specialities for gunners. Thinks; posting for cross training, or just as dogsbody, or?
I did more poking, found no historical reference to AA on Spurn ... except this wonderful little tidbit from 2002.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/33/a2801233.shtmlwhere an ATS lady describes her AA service ... and it seems they trained, operated and deployed as a
mobile battery. I did not appreciate this! But it does make sense for AA units. Mum did talk of several sites and I imagined individual postings, but not the whole battery swanning about!
She further mentions - a "practice camp" at Spurn Point! And finally, in listing some remembered names - my late Mum. Plus another lady I remember Mum kept in touch with - Jean McMillan.
I think I can now make a good guess at Mum's unit - 497 (M)HAA
M for Mobile I assume, Heavy Anti Aircraft for sure.
No mention of Peggy Page, but I would expect several different mobile AA batteries would have been on and off Spurn over time, by the sounds of it.
Or perhaps the coastal gunners had ATS as well, maybe more likely for a lengthy posting. So far as I can find out, the coastal battery was manned by Royal Artillery as well, not a Navy or Marines outfit. Maybe it just
seemed lengthy on that windswept sandbar
