Fort Campbell

Fort Campbell was built between 1935 and 1937 and initially mounted two 6-innch Mark VII guns.  A third gun was later added.

The fort was named after the Governor and Commander in Chief, Gen Sir David Graham Muschet Campbell.  It is a unique fortifications, much like Shing Mun Redoubt in Hong Kong, built about the same time.  The battery was deliberately dispersed and had a irregular layout to inhibit areal reconnaissance and attack.  The perimeter was was built to look like field boundaries and is totally irregular in shape.

A series of Defence Points, some later converted to Machine Gun Pillboxes, were built into the perimeter wall.  See the plan of the fort for more details.  These machine gun pillboxes included concrete tables and benches, similar to those built in stone clad pillboxes of that time.

Dead ground around the perimeter was covered by loopholes in the wall.

The eight original Defence Posts are now as follows:

MG Pillbox 1.  Two heavy machine guns with an observation slit. The two machine gun tables and benches survive in this pillbox, which has now been sealed.

Defence Post 1.  This is one of the original Defence Posts that has survived since the perimeter wall was built.  It originally had an electric light.

Observation Post 1  This was originally a Defence Point and then converted to be an observation post.

Destroyed Defence Post.  Original plans show a defence post just to the North of MG Pillbox 2.  This position appears to he have been removed.

MG Pillbox 2.  This was originally a Defence Point and then controverted to a machine gun pillbox.  It contains two machine gun tables and an observation position in the centre.

Observation Post 2  This was originally a Defence Point and then controverted to an observation cell.

MG Pillbox 3.  This was originally a Defence Point and then controverted to a machine gun pillbox.  It still contain two machine gun tables with a central observation slit.

Defence Post 2 is one of original defence post, although loopholes may have been added later.

Within Fort Campbell there are a number of loopholes in the perimeter wall, some of these being from the original design when they were marked as Firestep.  These covered dead ground that was out of view to the defence posts and machine gun posts.