Historic England
Lockheed Vega
A subsidiary of Lockheed.
For the recording of monuments related to the First World War in the UK. This thesaurus was constructed for the First World War Home Front Project and does not contain any additional terminology than that held in Monument Type.
First World War Project
Reconnaissance
An aircraft, often fitted with cameras, intended to fly over enemy territory to ascertain its strategic features and/or the position and strength of any military presence.
Fk8
Armstrong Whitworth FK8
A large, powerful aircraft, usually with two or more engines, designed to carry a payload of bombs.
Bomber
Armstrong Whitworth
Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, Ltd. formed in 1912.
Single-engine, two-seat tractor bomber and reconnaissance aircraft. Entered service in 1916 and, during 1917 and 1918, equipped nine RFC squadrons in its reconnaissance role.
An aeroplane with two wings, or planes, placed one above the other either side of the fuselage.
Biplane
Wreck
Unassigned
The remains of a vessel which has either sunk or suffered structural damage to the extent where it can no longer function.
A factory where aircraft engines are assembled.
A factory where aircraft are assembled.
Aircraft Works
Aircraft Assembly Plant
Aircraft Factory
Aircraft Engineering Site
Sites used for the manufacture of aircraft.
Aircraft Engine Factory
Buildings, sites and structures associated with the production, testing and storage of gunpowder.
Gunpowder Manufacturing Site
A building containing equipment used for the polishing of grains of gunpowder and extraction of the resulting dust.
Glaze And Reel House
A French aircraft manufacturer founded by Louis Bleriot and Gabriel Voisin, both aviators and inventors, in 1903, dissolved in 1906. After the First World War Bleriot founded Bleriot Aeronautique developing commercial aircraft.
Aircraft <By Manufacturer>
Bleriot Aeronautique
Bleriot
A French airliner produced in 1925. A fourengined biplane developed from the Bleriot 115 and 135 but larger than these. Two were built for Air Union (the Paris-London route). Both crashed with fatalaties in 1926 (Kent).
Bleriot 155
A land based establishment armed with torpedoes and used to defend the coast from enemy shipping.
Coastal Defence Site
A defence site used to defend against emeny shipping or invasion attempts. Use more specific term.
Torpedo Station
Army Camp
A site, including barracks and ancillary buildings used for the accommodation of soldiers.
A site where a body of troops is temporarily or permanently lodged, with or without entrenchments and fortifications.
Military Camp
Military Defence And Fortification
This is the top term for the thesaurus see Class List for Narrower Terms.
A site, usually including hangars, runway and ancillary buildings, used for the storage, maintenance and take off and landing of aircraft.
Airfield Site
Transport Site
A site associated with transport including both vehicles and transport infrastructure.
Bridge
A structure of wood, stone, iron, brick or concrete, etc, with one or more intervals under it to span a river or other space. Use specific type where known.
A way between different places, used by horses, travellers on foot and vehicles.
Road
Technical And Instructional Site
Sites used for the maintenance of military equipment and buildings and the instruction of military personnel. Use more specific term.
A room used for directing military operations and exercises.
Operations Room
Commemorative Monument
Monument
Commemorative Tablet
Commemorative Arch
Ceremonial Arch
A building or structure erected to commemorate a person or event.
Hall Of Memory
Monumental Arch
Memorial Chapel
Memorial
Commemorative Column
Memorial Seat
Memorial Garden
Site with important historical association.
Historical Site
Commemorative
Battlefield
The field or area of ground on which a battle or skirmish was fought.
Dh5
Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Established in 1912 by Mr G. Holt Thomas. In 1914 secured the services of Capt. Geoffrey de Havilland as designer-in-chief, who went on to lend his initials to a number of highly successful machines.
Airco
Airco DH5
The DH5 was an attempt to give a tractor-type fighter a good forward view. However it suffered from unpleasant flying characteristics and, as a result, had a short service career.
Fighter
A light, high-speed aircraft designed to engage in aerial combat.
Military Site
Sites, buildings and structures used by the military.
Royal Naval Air Station
An airfield with associated hangars and control buildings used for the storage, maintenance and deployment of military aircraft and airships flown by the Royal Naval Air Service.
Bristol F2B
Highly successful, two-seat, biplane fighter and reconnaissance aircraft with both forward and rear facing guns. Designed to replace the BE2, it entered service with the RFC in mid-1917 and remained in service until 1932.
Bristol
The Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd.. Founded in 1910 by Sir George White, a pioneer of electric tramways. The company had previously been The British and Colonial Aeroplane Co., Ltd.
Radio Telegraphy Station
Wireless Station
Radio Station
A building or group of buildings containing equipment capable of transmitting and receiving radio signals. Use BROADCASTING RADIO STATION for broadcasting establishments e.g. BFBS Radio stations.
Radio Telegraphy Mast
A tall, usually steel, structure used to receive and transmit radio telegraphy signals.
A building or group of buildings, incorporating radio masts, built to intercept radio transmissions from enemy vessels and aircraft during WWI.
Z Station
Wireless Telegraphy Station
Y Station
Nitroglycerine Works
A works or factory where nitroglycerine is manufactured.
A building or buildings where explosives are manufactured.
Explosives Works
Explosives Factory
Agriculture And Subsistence
Piggery
A place where pigs are reared.
Farm
A tract of land, often including a farmhouse and ancillary buildings, used for the purpose of cultivation and the rearing of livestock, etc.
Requisitioned Land
Land which has been temporarily taken over for use by the military or civilian authorities. During wartime land was requisitioned for various purposes, such as for argriculture or for military training/events etc.
A share or portion of land, allotted to a person, often used for growing, vegetables, fruit, etc.
Allotment
Barbed Wire Entanglement
One or more coils of barbed wire intended to impede the advance of hostile troops.
Sites, buildings and structures associated with the defence of the British Isles against invasion from seaborne or airborne forces.
Anti Invasion Defence Site
Aircraft Mark
Used to identify the variations of an aircraft. Index with Manufacturer, Form and Function.
Mark 10 or the tenth variant of an aircraft with its associated modifications.
MkX
A coastal battery constructed at short notice usually mounting a variety of artillery pieces.
A defensive battery positioned facing out to sea enabling the guns to be brought to bear on enemy shipping and amphibious craft.
Coast Artillery Battery
Emergency Coast Defence Battery
Date Stone
A stone commemorating the date of a specific event.
Brass Plaque
Wall Tablet
An ornamental, commemorative tablet.
Bread Stone
Commemorative Plaque
Bronze Plaque
Plaque
Mark 12 or the twelfth variant of an aircraft with its associated modifications.
MkXII
A building or works in which carriages were built. Use RAILWAY CARRIAGE WORKS for sites making railway carriages.
Carriage Works
Buildings and sites associated with the manufacture of motor vehicles.
Motor Vehicle Engineering Site
Engineering Works
Traction Engine Works
Engine Works
Any factory or site using machine tools in a manufacturing or processing capacity.
Engine Manufactory
Rifle Pit
Fieldwork
A usually temporary earthwork or fortification, constructed by military forces operating in the field. Use more specific type where known.
A pit dug to protect a small group of infantry men.
A hut used for the accommodation of members of the armed forces.
Buildings, used for a variety of purposes, providing support to essential services or for a central function. Use more specific term.
Ancillary Building
Accommodation Hut
A factory or works principally engaged in the refining or manufacture of TNT.
Trinitrotoluene Factory
The standard RFC power house built to Air Ministry drawing number 476/18 and comprising an engine room with a small workshop and driver's room.
Power House (476/18)
Power House (207/17)
A power house built to Air Ministry drawing number 207/17 and comprising four rooms; a driver's room, workshop and store, battery room and engine room containing 2 generator sets.
Building for domestic or small scale unspecified power generation.
A site or building including generators and fuel storage facilities used to generate electricity.
Power Generation Site
Power House
A building temporarily requisitioned for use as an auxiliary hospital administered by members of the Voluntary Aid Detachment during the First World War.
Vad Hospital
Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital
A building temporarily requistioned for use as a hospital. Auxiliary hospitals treated the less seriously wounded and were less strict than military hospitals although they remained under military control.
Auxiliary Hospital
A building for the medical and surgical treatment of both civilians and military personnel. Use narrower type if possible.
Hospital
Vehicle Park
A site, usually consisting of a simple open area of land or hardstanding and used for the storage of vehicles.
Tank Park
A site where tanks and armoured fighting vehicles can be stored.
A site used for the maintenance of aircraft.
Aircraft Maintenance Unit
Usually a complex of buildings for the processing of raw materials. Use specific type where known.
Any building designed or adapted to accommodate trades and manufacturing activity. Use more specific site where known.
Industrial Building
Works
Ship Repair Works
A site containing slipways and associated buildings used specifically for the repair of ships and larger ocean-going craft.
A building or group of buildings, often surrounded by a system of fortifications, used as a residential and training site by members of an armed force.
Royal Naval Base
A site, usually with docks and control buildings, used for the storage, maintenance and deployment of military vessels or the administration of the Royal Navy. May also include accommodation buildings for personnel.
A site or building used to co-ordinate Air-Sea Rescue operations.
Air Sea Rescue Station
Military Base
Training Base
A military base used for training service personnel.
A stone, slate, iron or wooden structure used to mark the site of a grave.
Grave Marker
Ledger Stone
Headstone
Footstone
Gravestone
A stone placed over or at the head or foot of a grave, or at the entrance of a tomb.
Gunpowder Mixing House
A building in which the ingredients of an explosive charge are weighed into their correct proportions and mixed prior to incorporation.
Mixing House
Explosives Manufacturing Site
Buildings, sites and structures associated with the production, testing and storage of explosives.
Textile Mill
Any factory used for the manufacture of textiles.
Textile Industry Site
Industrial
Includes all stages of production process of textiles, eg. wool, cotton, linen, etc, and textile products. Use only for sites where there is evidence of textile manufacture but no specific monument type, otherwise use more specific term.
Armament Manufacturing Site
A building or site used for the manufacture, assembly and testing of weapons, explosives and associated military hardware.
Cannon Boring Mill
A building used for drilling out the bores of cannon and other military pieces.
Arsenal
Ordnance Factory
Rifle Factory
Gun Factory
A building or site used for the manufacture of small arms and artillery pieces, etc.
Armaments Factory
Small Arms Factory
Naval Arsenal
A building or large scale site for the manufacture and/or storage of weapons, ammunition and equipment.
Vickers Armstrongs
Vickers (Aviation) Ltd. formed in 1911, as the aviation division of Vickers Ltd., and took control of Supermarine Aviation Works Ltd. the same year. Taken over by Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. in 1938.
Vickers
Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd.. In 1938 took over Vickers (Aviation) Ltd., which itself had taken control of Supermarine Aviation Works Ltd. in 1928.
A building where motor cycles are assembled.
Motor Cycle Factory
A factory for the manufacture of vehicles.
Vehicle Factory
A structure, building or site commemorating soldiers and civilians killed in war.
War Memorial Garden
War Memorial
War Memorial Cloister
War Memorial Chapel
A sepulchral monument erected to commemorate a person or persons buried elsewhere.
Cenotaph
Battery Engine House
A building housing the engines used to power equipment used by a searchlight, anti-aircraft or caostal battery.
A gun emplacement associated with a coastal battery.
Coast Battery Gun Site
Coastal Battery
A site including artillery pieces and associated structures directed out to sea to engage enemy shipping and defend the coastline. Use more specific term where known.
Coast Artillery Searchlight
A searchlight battery, which faces out to sea, used to locate and illuminate enemy shipping.
Coastal Battery Command Post
A command post used to direct the guns of a coastal battery.
A building used to observe the movements of hostile aircraft or shipping.
Battery Observation Post
A battery, usually a single gun often in a pillbox, situated so as to provide enfilading fire along a beach to prevent hostile forces from advancing inland.
Beach Defence Battery
Defence Site
Sites, buildings and structures involved in the passive or active defence of the country against hostile forces on land, sea and in the air. Use more specific term.
A piece of ground, or a building, where small arms or large artillery may be fired at targets. For rocket and missile firing use ROCKET TEST FACILITY.
Firing Range
Bombing Range
An area of land, with associated buildings and targets, used for practicing the dropping of bombs and other aspects of air warfare.
Grenade Range
An area of ground where training in the use of grenades can be carried out.
A target range used for rifle and small arms practice.
Rifle Range
A site, buildings or structure associated with the demonstration and testing of weapons and military equipment. Use more specific term.
Weapon Testing Facility
A piece of ground, or a building, on which artillery may be fired at targets.
Artillery Firing Range
MkVI
Mark 6 or the sixth variant of an aircraft with its associated modifications.
Bombing Range Tower
An observation tower located on or near to a bombing range.
Airco DH2
A single-seat fighter which began service with the RFC's fighter squadron in 1916. Some shortterm success in dealing with new Fokkers but was withdrawn from service in mid-1917.
Dh2
Lorry Factory
A factory used for the manufacture and assembly of lorries.
A building, on an airfield or military base, used for the maintenance and storage of motor vehicles.
A building used for the storage and maintenance of motor vehicles.
Garage
Motor Transport Building
A shed used for the storage of vehicles.
Vehicle Shed
Munitions Factory
Small Arms Ammunition Factory
A factory engaged in the manufacture of small arms ammunition, especially the metal components and filling with the explosive propellant.
A building or site used for the manufacture of weapons, ammunition and military supplies. Use more specific type where known.
A works or factory where shells or projectiles were machined before they were dispatched to a filling factory to be filled with explosives.
Projectile Factory
Shell Factory
A building or complex, housing powered machinery and employing a large workforce for manufacturing purposes. Use specific monument type where known.
Factory
Filling Factory
A factory where explosives and the components of munitions of all types are brought together for assembly.
Ambulance Park
A site where ambulances can br parked and stored.
MkIII
Mark 3 or the third variant of an aircraft with its associated modifications.
Car Factory
A factory where cars are manufactured.
Aircraft Testing Site
A site used for the functional testing of aircraft and their components.
Gun Emplacement (Type 55491)
Gun Emplacement
A fortified site in which a gun, mortar or cannon is positioned.
A gun emplacment which conforms to Department of Fortification and Works drawing number 55491.
A building or site used for the storage of goods or equipment.
Storage Depot
A building or site used as a storage and distribution centre.
Depot
General Aircraft
General Aircraft Limited.
Aircraft <By Function>
Transporter
An aircraft used for the transportation of troops, supplies, vehicles or passengers.
Fokker
Dutch aircraft manufacturer named after its founder, Anthony Fokker. Set up in 1912 in Schwerin, Germany, moving to the Netherlands in 1919. The world's largest aircraft manufacturer in the late 1920s.
Flying Boat
An aeroplane with the capability to land at sea, the underside of its fuselage shaped like the hull of a sea-going vessel and designed to make contact with the water.
Seaplane
Floatplane
A type of seaplane, with one or more slender pontoons (known as "floats") mounted under the fuselage to provide buoyancy.
An aircraft designed to land on water. They can be divided into 2 types: Flying boats (designed with a hull allowing the aircraft to land directly on water) and Floatplanes (where the undercarriage was replaced by fixed floats).
Aircraft <By Form>
Cartridge House
A component building of an explosives works where cartridges were filled with explosives with the aid of cartridging machines.
Any structure or object, used for the purpose of practice bombing.
Bombing Range Target
Twin-engine, three-crew, long-range heavy bomber biplane. Entered service in 1917. Of wooden construction with a fabric covering, the Vimy was fitted with a skid under the nose of its fuselage to prevent tipping forward upon landing.
Vimy
Long-range, usually four-engined, bomber.
Heavy Bomber
A large site specializing in the manufacture of locomotives.
Railway Engineering Works
An engineering site where railway carriages are manufactured.
Railway Carriage Works
Buildings, sites and structures associated with the construction and maintenance of railways and rolling stock.
Vehicle Engineering Site
Sites associated with the manufacture and engineering of vehicles.
Railway Engineering Workshop
An engineering workshop, often attached to an engine shed, for the running repairs of operational parts, etc.
A building used specifically for testing the boilers of railway engines, both hydraulically and with live steam.
Steaming Shed
An ancilliary workshop used for repairs, etc.
Railway Workshop
An engineering works producing items for the railway other than rolling stock, such as signals, tracks, points, etc.
Railway Works
Engineering works specializing in the production and maintenance of non-passenger carrying railway rolling stock.
Railway Wagon Works
Waggon Workshop
Railway Engineering Site
A range marker allowing bombers to locate the bombing range.
Bombing Range Direction Arrow
Bombing Range Marker
Decontamination Building
A building used for the treatment of victims of chemical, gas or other forms of contamination.
Gas Decontamination Centre
A building equipped with a large screen and film projectors where service personnel could watch films.
Cinema
A camp used to accommodate members of the Womens Land Army who undertook essential agricultural work during the First and Second World Wars.
Womens Land Army Camp
Sick Quarters
A building used for the accommodation of sick and wounded members of the armed forces.
Gymnasium
A building or room, originally equipped for gymnastics or indoor sports but also, more recently, equipped with cross-training machines and free-weights for members to improve their physical fitness.
Domestic Site
Parade Ground
A place where military personnel parade, practice marching, assemble or muster for a march or any other special purpose.
Food And Rest Centre
Squash Racquets Court
A building in which the game of squash can be played.
Concert Hall
A place where service personnel could meet and listen to musical performances etc.
Medical Block
A building, usually part of a complex, where medical treatment and hospital facilities are provided.
A place where service personnel could meet for entertainment.
Meeting Hall
Buildings used for the accommodation, welfare and recreation of servicemen.
Womens Land Army Hostel
A hostel used to accommodate members of the Womens Land Army who undertook essential agricultural work during the First and Second World Wars.
A prepared area, traditionally grass, where tennis is played.
Tennis Court
Blackburn Aircraft, Ltd., founded by Robert Blackburn, who produced his first aircraft in 1910. Specialised in the production of torpedocarrying aircraft.
Blackburn
Military Hospital
A hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of military personnel and/or their families.
A Mark 2 aircraft which has undergone slight modifications to enhance performance or armament.
MkIIA
Aircraft Hangar
Aircraft Shed
A structure used for the housing and servicing of aircraft.
An aircraft hangar designed to be moved from site to site as necessary.
Bessonneau Hangar (Type H)
The first transportable aircraft hangar developed by the RFC/RAF, which comprised a kit of timber and canvas that could be assembled in 48 hours. The canvas doors open one end only. Also known as Type H hangar.
Aircraft Hangar (Transportable)
Photo Reconnaissance
A camera-equipped aircraft intended to fly over enemy territory and gather photographic evidence of strategic features and/or the position and strength of any military presence.
Bomb Store
A complex of buildings and earthworks constructed the storage of bombs and pyrotechnics.
Ammunition Store
An building or installation used for the storage of ammunition.
A building housing an engine used to run electrical equipment. Use more specific type where known.
Engine House
Naval Gunnery Range
An area of ground, usually situated on the coast, on which naval guns can be mounted for testing purposes and to practice firing at targets usually placed out at sea to mimic surface vessels.
Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery
An anti aircraft battery usually mounting weapons with a larger calibre ammunition such as the QF 3.75 inch (94mm) gun.
A building in which a supply of arms, ammunition and provisions for an army is stored.
Magazine
A hangar for the storage and maintenance of dirigible motor-driven balloons.
Airship Hangar
Seaplane Shed
An aircraft hangar designed to house seaplanes.
Seaplane Hangar
Aircraft Storage Facility
A site, building or structure used to store aircraft. Use more specific term.
A Mark 6B aircraft which has undergone further modifications to enhance performance or armament.
MkVIC
A concrete, circular concave dish 20 feet in diameter used as an acoustic listening device to detect approaching enemy aircraft.
Sound Mirror
An early warning structure built during and after WWI along the south and east coasts of England. Sound detecting acoustic dishes and walls could detect the sound of approaching enemy aircraft at a distance of 8 to 15 miles.
Sound Dish
Sound Mirror (20 Feet)
Clothing Workshop
A workshop for the manufacture of clothing, eg. tailor's workshop.
Clothing Industry Site
A trench, usually linking two or more rows of trenches, enabling the conveyance of messages or equipment safely from one trench to another.
Communication Trench
A trench cut around a building or structure to prevent the spread of fire.
Fire Trench
A linear fieldwork dug as a means of concealment, protection or both.
Slit Trench
A short trench used to protect troops or to provide defensive fire from, often dug for practice purposes.
Trench
A building used for the accommodation of members of the armed forces.
Barrack Block
A building housing toilets and washing facilities.
Ablutions Block
A building or site used by the armed forces for the storage and issuing of military stores and materials.
Ordnance Depot
A fortified structure used to protect civilians and/or military personnel from enemy bombing.
Sites and buildings used in the coordination of the defence of the civilian population during times of war. Could also be used during times of national emergency.
Civil Defence Site
Air Raid Shelter
A protective structure, often made of sandbags with reinforcement, designed to protect aircraft at airfields from enemy attack.
Blast Shelter
Mark 4 or the fourth variant of an aircraft with its associated modifications.
MkIV
MkVB
A Mark 5A aircraft which has undergone further modifications to enhance performance or armament.
Pillbox (Variant)
Pillbox
An often squat building with thick, loopholed walls and a flat roof, designed to accommodate a variety of weapons, usually strategically positioned to cover a vulnerable point in a defensive system.
A pillbox which varies from the standard designs.
Bellite Works
A works engaged principally in the manufacture of the explosive bellite.
Snipe
The Sopwith Aviation Co., Ltd.. Established in 1911 by the noted aviator Mr T. O. M. Sopwith. Produced many notable aircraft, including the Camel and a Schneider Cup-winning seaplane.
Sopwith
Camel
Single-seat, single-engine fighter biplane renowned for its high performance and manoeuvrability. Entered service in 1917.
Single-engined fighter, developed from the Camel. Entered service in 1918 and became the RAF's first mainstay peacetime fighter.
A Mark 1B aircraft which has undergone further modification to enhance performance or armament.
MkIC
Fighter Bomber
A light, high speed aircraft designed to engage in aerial combat and also equipped to carry bombs.
A fighter-bomber designed to deploy its bombs during the latter stage of a diving manoeuvre, thus increasing the accuracy of its targetting.
Dive Bomber
A building used as the command centre of a military operation.
Military Headquarters
Army Headquarters
A building used for the daily administration of an army.
Boat Yard
A place where boats are built and stored.
Dry Dock
Graving Dock
Canal Dry Dock
Double Dock
A stone-faced enclosure, with entrance closed by a floatable caisson or by gates, which can be pumped dry for inspection, maintenance, or repair of the hull or underwater fittings of a ship or ships.
Seaplane Factory
A factory where seaplanes are manufactured.
Wet Dock
A large, watertight enclosure in which the water is maintained at the high-tide level so that vessels remain constantly afloat in them.
Dockyard Boundary Wall
Docks
Dockyard Stable
Dockyard Office
Dockyard Gatehouse
Dockyard
Dockyard Gate
An enclosure in which ships are built and repaired, and all sorts of ships' stores are brought together.
Marine Engineering Works
Specialized engineering workshop particularly for the production of marine engines or other large components of ships.
Place where ships and boats are dismantled.
Ship Breakers Yard
A craft or repair workshop in a boat yard, harbour or naval dockyard.
Marine Workshop
A dock with gates which open for access for some hours before and after high water.
Half Tide Dock
Marine Construction Site
Buildings, sites and structures associated with the construction and repair of ships and boats.
Shipyard
A place where boats or ships are built or repaired.
A building or site used for the maintenance and repair of motor vehicles.
Vehicle Repair Centre
A site associated with the maintenance of military equipment and buildings.
Technical Site
Transformer Building
A building housing transformers to convert AC electricity supply for domestic use.
Control Building
An aircraft used for the training of pilots, sometimes fitted with dual controls for use by the instructor.
Trainer
Fk3
A two-seat, reconnaissance biplane developed from the FK2 with a more powerful, but heavier, engine. Primarily used for training in the UK.
Armstrong Whitworth FK3
A. V. Roe & Co., Ltd. formed in 1909.
Avro
Avro 504
An important two-seat, tractor biplane, initially used by the RFC in a reconnaissance role and by the RNAS as a bomber. Later converted to a single-seat Home Defence fighter and ultimately used as a trainer.
A purpose-built firing platform on which an anti-aircraft battery could be emplaced.
Sites, buildings and structures for the control and mounting of anti aircraft artillery. Also, structures for passive or indirect defence against enemy aircraft.
Anti Aircraft Defence Site
Anti Aircraft Gun Tower
Seaplane Shed (Type J)
A steel framed seaplane hangar designed for Royal Navy Air Stations by the admiralty in 1917-1918.
Types of aircraft to aid the recording of aircraft remains and crash sites, listing aircraft by form, function and manufacturer.
Aircraft Type
Billet
Accommodation for military personnel.
Searchlight Battery
Searchlight Emplacement
A site in which one or more searchlights and their accompanying structures were positioned to locate enemy aircraft or surface vessels for the benefit of batteries and night fighter aircraft.
A site in which one or more searchlights were positioned to locate enemy aircraft or surface vessels for the benefit of batteries and night fighter aircraft.
An aircraft lifted by gas bags, containing hydrogen or helium, but propelled by engines. Also known as a dirigible balloon, firm and streamlined in shape and incapable of high speeds. Used extensively during the First World War.
Airship
Zeppelin
A rigid frame type of airship pioneered by Count Zeppelin and used by the Germans in FWW for military purposes: do not use asa generic name for airships.
Press House
Cordite Press House
A building containing presses for the compaction of mill cake gunpowder as part of the gunpowder manufacturing process.
Mk1
MkI
Mark 1 or the first production variation of an aircraft.
Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment, RAF Felixstowe. Developed seaplanes and flying boats until World War Two, when the establishment moved to Helensburg, Scotland.
Felixstowe
A square, concrete pillbox-like structure with 36in thick walls and a single large embrasure used to emplace a Vickers Medium Machine Gun. The entrance was protected by an external blast wall.
Machine Gun Emplacement
A structure, usually or concrete or sandbags, in which a machine gun was emplaced.
Vickers Machine Gun Emplacement
MkIIC
A Mark 2B aircraft which has undergone slight modifications to enhance performance or armament.
Radio Mast
A tall, usually steel, structure used to receive and transmit radio signals.
Officers Quarters
A building where military officers are accommodated.
Sabulite Factory
A factory or works principally engaged in the manufacture of the mining explosive sabulite.
Remount Depot
A building or site used as a distribution centre for Army horses/ remounts and mules.
Control Tower
A building at an airfield from which air traffic can be controlled, usually by radio.
A building, originally used as a shelter for the duty pilot or officer on watch on an airfield, and later used to direct air traffic. Use more specific type where known.
Watch Office
Gun Emplacement (Type 55422)
A gun emplacement which conforms to Department of Fortification and Works drawing number 55422.
Cordite Factory
A factory principally engaged in the manufacture of the propellant explosive cordite.
Gun Cotton Mill
Guncotton Factory
A factory or works engaged in the manufacture of the explosive guncotton. They may be found as separate factories or form part of a cordite factory.
A plinth or pedestal, usually of concrete, to which an anti aircraft or coastal battery gun was fitted. Holdfasts are often the only evidence for a weapon which survive.
Holdfast
Underground Testing Range
A site, containing installations and machinery, used for measuring the power of explosives.
Testing Range
Training Area
A designated area of land, usually closed to the public, used for military exercises and training purposes.
Training Centre
A place where specific skills are taught on short courses
Training Site
A military camp providing training facilities.
Training Camp
A site used for military training. Use more specific term.
A structure used for the transmission and interception of radio signals. Usually composed of a number of different elements such as aerials, receiving equipment and supporting pylons.
Sites, buildings or structures involved in passive air defence, usually by forcing hostile aircraft to fly high or drop their bombs on the wrong targets. Use more specific term.
Passive Air Defence Site
Antenna Array
De Havilland
The de Havilland Aircraft Co, Ltd.
Air Defence Site
A site equipped for passive or active defence against an airborne enemy assault.
Active Air Defence Site
A site equipped for active defensive action against an airborne enemy assault.
A chemical works engaged in the production or refining of toluene, a substance extracted from coal tar or specific types of crude oil, and used in the production of explosives during WW1.
Toluol Works
Toluene Works
The surviving remnants of material used to disguise the existence of a building or site. Use with specific monument type where known.
Camouflage
A building, either purpose-built or modified, used for the co-ordination of the Fire Service.
Civil Defence Building
A building used to coordinate civil defence in times of war. Can also be utilized as aid centres in times of national emergency.
Fire Service Headquarters
Fuel Depot
A building or site used for the storage and distribution of fuel.
Torpedo Range Control Building
Torpedo Range
A designated area of water in which the performance of torpedoes can be evaluated.
A building from which the firing of torpedoes can be controlled and evaluated.
Airfield Building
A building found on, or associated with, an airfield.
Quadrant Tower
An observation tower on a bombing range from which an observer could watch the bombing runs and report back to the aircraft on their accuracy.
A camp where people who fled from danger or problem whithin their country or across international borders and who are in need of international protection are temporarily placed.
Displaced Persons Camp
A building used for the daily administration of Civil Defence activities.
Civil Defence Headquarters
A searchlight battery used to light a beach.
Beach Defence Light
Royal Flying Corps Aircraft Hangar
RFC Side Opening Aircraft Hangar
Royal Flying Corps Side Opening Aircraft Hangar
The earliest side-opening standard type of aircraft hangar designed in 1913 and used in WWI. Originally constructed from wooden trusses and struts, one example has steel frames. It comprised a single or coupled shed with rear workshops.
Royal Flying Corps Aeroplane Shed
The earliest side-opening standard type of aircraft hangar designed in 1913 and used in WWI. Originally constructed from wooden trusses and struts, some examples have steel frames. It comprised a single or coupled shed with rear workshops.
A building used for the storage of materials used to provide power or heat.
A large, usually metal, container used for the storage of liquid fuels.
Fuel Tank
Fuel Store
Sites and buildings used for the storage or equipment, ordnance or vehicles. Use more specific term.
Storage Facility
A chemical works engaged in the production of Ammonium Nitrate, used as a fertilizer or for use in the explosives industry.
Ammonium Nitrate Works
Wall Monument
A substantial monument attached to a wall and often standing on the floor.
A structure or building used in the manufacture of the explosive cordite. After the cordite had been pressed to extract moisture it was placed on racks within the stove prior to being taken to the reeling house for winding.
Cordite Drying Stove
Reel Drying Stove
Gunpowder Drying House
A building in which moist guncotton is dried by warm air for use in nitroglycerine manufacture.
Guncotton Stove
A processing house where surplus water is removed from gunpowder after incorporating.
Effigy
A sculptured likeness, portrait or image, often found on a tomb or other memorial.
Memorial Effigy
Usually a small, two or three man trench, dug as an isolated fieldwork rather than as part of a defensive system. A WWI and WWII feature.
Weapons Pit
Mess
A building providing dining facilities and recreation for non-commissioned officers.
Sergeants Mess
Officers Mess
A building providing dining facilities and recreation for commissioned officers.
A building providing dining and recreation facilities for military personnel.
A site, building or structure used for the storage of explosives.
Explosives Storage Facility
A Mark 1E aircraft which has undergone further modifications to enhance performance or armament.
MkIF
A building in which cordite paste is blended with the solvent acetone and Vaseline to form a cordite dough.
Cordite Incorporating House
A building used for the daily administration of an organisation or military force.
Headquarters
An aircraft used to facilitate communications, for example in a military context.
Communications
MkII
Mark 2 or the second variant of an aircraft with its associated modifications.
Bomb Site
A site which has been bombed but where there is no crater, eg. bombed buildings.
Command Post
A building used for directing the movements of artillery pieces or searchlights. Use more specific term where known.
Anti Aircraft Battery Command Post
A site containing one or more artillery pieces and/or rocket launchers for firing at enemy aircraft.
Anti Aircraft Battery
A command post used to direct the guns of an anti aircraft battery.
Breaking Down House
A building within a gunpowder works complex, where the mill cake (pulverised and incorporated ingredients of gunpowder) was broken down. It was crushed or broken down by passing it between pairs of revolving gunmetal rollers in a breaking-down machine.
A building within the gunpowder works complex. During the gunpowder production process, the mill cake was broken down, pressed and then corned. The remaining dust was removed from the corned powder by tumbling it in gauze-covered revolving cylinders.
Dusting House
A site used for the manufacture of gunpowder.
Gunpowder Works
Gunpowder Factory
Gunpowder Mill
Powder Mill
Sound Mirror (200 Feet)
A concrete, concave wall 200 feet in length used as an acoustic listening device to detect approaching enemy aircraft.
Defence sites and structures including passive and active defences such as netting, chain booms and mines designed to prevent submarines approaching strategic ports.
Anti Submarine Defence
Light Aircraft
Generally understood to mean aircraft whose normal loaded weight is less than 2750kg (6060lb).
Canadian Forestry Corps Camp
A camp providing accommodation for members of the Canadian Forestry Corps along with facilities such as saw mills for the sawing and squaring of timber to create pit props, shoring, crates etc for the war effort.
Memorial Stone
Dedication Stone
A commemorative stone inscribed with a dedicatory inscription to a person or event.
A stone commemorating a person or event.
Commemorative Stone
Observation Post
A building, situated on the coast, used for observing the movements of shipping.
Coastal Observation Post
A building or site for watching specific military activities or the movement of enemy forces, etc.
An observation post located on or close to a bombing range.
Bombing Range Observation Post
A building housing the stand-by generator set and associated equipment which could supply electricity to all essential services in the event of a power cut.
Stand By Set House
Handley Page, Ltd.. Founded by Sir Frederick Handley Page, this was the first limited company to be incorporated in Great Britain for the purpose of aircraft manufacture.
Four-engined, five to seven crew, heavy bomber biplane. Entered service in 1918.
Handly Page
Ammonium Perchlorate Works
A chemical works engaged in the production of Ammonium Perchlorate, a product used in the explosives industry.
Admiralty Signal Establishment
A building or site conducting research into communication techniques for use in the Royal Navy.
An aircraft designed for the testing of engines or other aircraft components.
Test Aircraft
Reception Centre
Gothauer Waggonfabrik A.G., based in Gotha, Thuringia (Germany).
Gotha
Gotha Gv
A First World War German three-crew, twinengined, long range heavy bomber biplane manufactured by Gothaer Waggonfabrik A.G. Entering service in 1917, this aircraft incorporated a ventral tunnel allowing the gunner to shoot downwards and to the rear.
A building, factory or works which was engaged in the manufacture of refining saltpetre. Often part of a gunpowder works.
Saltpetre Works
A large bed surrounded by an earthwork and filled with composing vegetable matter and animal waste. This was used to produce Nitre, a constituent of gunpowder.
Nitre Bed
A building used to house members of the armed forces.
Barracks
Testing Works
Proving House
A building used for the testing of weapons for quality, accuracy and explosive power.
Proof House
The main administrative building and headquarters of a regiment.
A building or site used for the exercise and training of military personnel.
Drill Hall
Regimental Headquarters
A factory for the manufacture of military tanks.
Tank Factory
Ripe Charge House
Workshop, as part of a gunpowder works complex, in which explosive is loaded into shells. Also used for expense magazine, where powder was stored between work processes.
Green Charge House
Charge House
Naval Battlefield
Area or zone of sea where a battle, skirmish or action was fought between naval ships or warships and privateers. Not to be used for enemy action upon mercantile ships or a sudden strike by mine/torpedo against an enemy warship.
A complex of buildings used as a headquarters and training base for Royal Navy personnel. Even though they are buildings on land shore establishments are deemed to be shipsand are designated 'HMS' eg. HMS Dolphin in Portsmouth.
Royal Navy Shore Establishment
A side-opening steel framed shed. A smaller version of the SEAPLANE SHED (TYPE F) they were built from 1916 on RNAS seaplane bases.
Seaplane Shed (Type G)
Supply Depot
A building or site used for the storage and distribution of the essential logistical requirements of an armed force.
A board, wall painting or other structure displaying advice, giving information or directions.
Sign
Gun Emplacement (Type 55483)
A gun emplacment which conforms to Department of Fortification and Works drawing number 55483.
A building or group of buildings used for the storage and issuing of rations and equipment to an army unit.
Quartermasters Store
Light Bomber
High speed, short to medium-range bomber, usually powered by two engines.
Aeroplane Repair Section Shed
A shed used for the maintenance and repair of aircraft.
Ambulance Station
A building where ambulances and paramedic personnel are housed awaiting emergency calls.
A building or site used for the storage and distribution of food.
Food Depot
Coastal Fort
A fortification constructed either on the coast, or in the middle of a stretch of water, designed to protect a port or river from enemy incursion.
A building or room used for small scale manufacture or maintenance.
Workshop
A building complex with hangars and slipways built adjacent to a body of water where seaplanes can be stored and maintained.
Seaplane Station
A building where non-commissioned aircrew are housed.
Airmens Quarters
Gun Emplacement (Type 55414)
A gun emplacement which conforms to Department of Fortification and Works drawing number 55414.
Water Storage Facility
A site or building containing tanks and pipes and used to store large quantities of water.
Water Tank
A receptacle for the storage of water.
Glider Tug
An aircraft used for towing gliders aloft.
Tug
An aircraft used for towing another aircraft or object, such as a glider or target.
A complex of purpose-built or adapted buildings used for the maintenance, storage, assembly and control of sea mines and minefields.
Submarine Mine Establishment
Match Lodge
A building at the entrance to an factory manufacturing explosives where a person was searched for matches, prior to entering the workplace.
A building or site used for the storage and distribution of the essential logistical requirements of the Royal Navy.
Royal Naval Depot
Triumphal Arch
A large free-standing arch erected to commemorate a triumph or victory.
A concrete, circular concave dish 30 feet in diameter used as an acoustic listening device to detect approaching enemy aircraft.
Sound Mirror (30 Feet)
Airship Station
A site, including hangars, moorings and ancillary buildings, used for the storage, maintenance, take off and landing of airships.
A chemical works engaged in the manufacture of the coal tar derivative, picric acid, often associated with the textile industry where it was used as a dye, but more commonly with the explosives industry where it was used as the shell filling Lyddite.
Picric Acid Works
Glider
An engineless aeroplane, designed to be towed aloft, that travels suspended by upward air currents.
A prison site for the containment of servicemen captured in war.
Prisoner Of War Camp
Machine Gun Post
An open walled structure built of concrete, brick or sandbags which enclosed one or more machine-guns mounted on pintels for light anti-aircraft and ground defence.
Airco DH6
Dh6
Originally designed as a trainer but relegated to use by the RNAS in a Maritime Reconnaissance and anti-submarine role when the Avro 504 became the standard trainer.
War Production Factory
A factory or works which has been temporarily turned over to the manufacture of goods for the war effort.
Gun Barrel Proof House
A workshop for testing guns, incorporating louvred sheds to serve as firing ranges.
Gun Testing Shop
Cordite Dough Store
A building in which cordite dough is stored before extrusion.
Ammunition Dump
A building or site used for the storage and distribution of ammunition.
Ammunition Depot
Requisitioned Building
A building which has been temporarily taken over for use by the military or civilian authorities. During wartime buildings were requisitioned for various purposes, such as temporary hospitals or headquarters.
A tower serving as a reservoir to deliver water at a required point.
Water Tower
Hydraulic Power Site
Hydraulic Accumulator Tower
A structure used for the production of hydraulic power. A head of water was raised at the top of the tower by means of pumps. Used for powering machinery.
Emergency Food Centre
An establishment from which food is distributed to the public during wartime or similar states of emergency.
Cotton Waste Works
A works where cotton waste is stored or processed.
Cotton Waste Mill
Mark 8 or the eighth variant of an aircraft with its associated modifications.
MkVIII
A building where mineral jelly was stored. Mineral jelly was used as a stabilizer in the manufacture of the explosive, cordite.
Mineral Jelly Store
Blast Wall
A reinforced wall designed to reflect the blast from an explosion. Often found associated with powder magazines, pillboxes and air raid shelters.
A column set on a pedestal and decorated with the bows of warships to celebrate naval victories. Originally a Roman form, it was revived in 17th and 18th century decoration.
Rostral Column
MkIIB
A Mark 2A aircraft which has undergone slight modifications to enhance performance or armament.
Triplane
An aeroplane featuring three wings, or planes, placed one above the other either side of its fuselage.
Military Office
An administrative building used to organize and co-ordinate the activities of members of the armed forces.
Squadron Office
A building used for the administration of a squadron.
Generator House
A building housing a generator used to power electrical equipment.
Boom Defence
A bar, chain or other obstruction stretched across a waterway to obstruct navigation.
Muster/departure points from which troops embarked for their journey to the Front.
Embarkation Point
Sites, buildings or structures believed to be associated with defence but unidentifiable as specific monument types.
Defence Work
MkV
Mark 5 or the fifth variant of an aircraft with its associated modifications.
A building with small observation ports used for plotting mines dropped by parachute.
Minewatchers Post
Trophy
A monument erected as a permanent reminder of a military victory. The design usually includes images of the spoils of the battle.
A Mark 3 aircraft which has undergone slight modifications to enhance performance or armament.
MkIIIA
Minefield
An area of ground or water containing explosive mines.
Extended Defence Officers Post
An observation post for a naval officer in charge of a marine minefield.
Airco DH9
Dh9
Developed from the DH4, featured the pilot and gunner cockpits in closer proximity, but suffered from engine reliability problems. Also known as the Ninak, saw service from 1918 to 1931.
Guard Room
A building used for the accommodation of a military guard and/or the detainment of prisoners.
Guardhouse
Anti Motor Torpedo Boat Battery
A coastal battery containing one or more artillery pieces for to defend the coast against hostile motor torpedo boats.
Air Force Headquarters
A building used for the daily administration of the Royal Flying Corps or Royal Air Force.
Infantry Post
A defensive position, often constructed from sandbags, designed to protect a group of infantry.
Rifle Post
Gun Store
A building used for the storage of artillery pieces.
A coupled timber built end-opening First World War aircraft hangar.
Aeroplane Twin Shed
Nightfighter
A light, high speed aircraft equipped specifically to engage in night combat.
Fabrication Shed
Covered area for making large engineered constructions such as sections of ships or bridges.
A factory or works principally engaged in the production of a single base propellant, using nitrocellulose without the addition of nitroglycerine.
Nitrocellulose Powder Factory
A works or factory principally engaged in the manufacture of dynamite.
Dynamite Factory
An area or site used for the landing and take-off of aircraft, often including associated buildings, equipment and other installations.
Aircraft Landing Ground
Airfield
A bomber designed to operate with medium bombloads over medium distances.The medium bomber was generally considered to be any design that delivered about 4,000 lb (1.8 t) over ranges of about 1,500 to 2,000 miles (2,400 to 3,200 km).
Medium Bomber
A building or site used for naval communications.
Admiralty Signal Station
A coastal battery designed for use in short range engagements with enemy vessels, minelayers, blockships and torpedo craft.
Close Defence Battery
A building of unknown purpose found at a military site. Use more specific type where known.
Military Building
Recreation Hut
A hut, usually built as part of a complex on a military base or airfield and used for the recreation of military personnel.
Firing Range Blockhouse
Firing Range Shelter
A shelter on a firing range from which the weapons testing can be viewed in safety.
Incorporating Mill
A stone edge-runner grinding machine or mill used for mechanically grinding and mixing the ingredients of gunpowder.
Target Railway
A miniature railway on which targets can be placed to provide moving targets on a firing range.
An area of ground used for the testing of, and practicing with, weapons against fixed and moveable targets.
Target Range
Torpedo Bomber
Aircraft designed for the carrying and dropping of torpedoes.
MkXIV
Mark 14 or the fourteenth variant of an aircraft with its associated modifications.
Saltpetre Store
A place where saltpetre, the chief component of gunpowder, is kept.
Traditionally a building or site where stage coaches were built. Nowadays the term is applied to buildings used for the manufacturing of the body work and furnishings of motor vehicles and railway carriages.
Coach Works
Airship Construction Works
Construction works for the production of rigid or dirigible airships.
A system of defensive works such as anti-tank obstacles, ditches and pillboxes, designed to stop the advance of an enemy. Defence lines were constructed across and around strategic areas of ground and sites such as industrial towns.
Defence Line
Balloon Shed
A building used for fabricating balloon and airship envelopes.
An aircraft, usually towed or radio-controlled, designed for use as an air-to-air, or ground-toair, gunnery target.
Target Tug
An aircraft used for the towing of targets.
Target
Buildings, sites and structures associated with the engineering industry.
Boring Mill
A building containing a machine tool for boring out large cylindrical holes in items such as steam engine cylinders, pump barrels, etc.
Engineering Industry Site
Shipwrights Workshop
A place where dockyard craftsmen both design and build ships.
MkVII
Mark 7 or the seventh variant of an aircraft with its associated modifications.
A tree named after a person or event associated with it, e.g. Byron's Oak at Newstead.
Named Tree
Wet Guncotton Magazine
A building in which moist guncotton is stored prior to drying for cordite maunufacture.
Ammonal Works
A works engaged principally in the manufacture of ammonal explosives.
Minelayer
An aircraft equipped to deploy explosive mines.
A factory or works principally engaged in the manufacture of the explosive Gelignite.
Gelignite Works
MkXI
Mark 11 or the eleventh variant of an aircraft with its associated modifications.
Womens Royal Air Force Camp
A camp used for the accommodation of members of the Womens Royal Air Force who undertook a variety of essential roles within the RAF to enable their male counterparts to fight more effectively.
A building used as headquarters by the Territorial Army, the volunteer reserve of the British army.
Territorial Army Headquarters
Airfield Defence Site
A site or building associated with active or passive defence of the landing ground and buildings of an airfield.
Listening Post
Communications Building
A building associated with the transmission and gathering of information.
Buildings and structures associated with the acquisition of electronic signals for the purpose of intelligence gathering.
Signals Gathering Station
Shot Tower
A tower in which shot is made from molten lead poured through sieves at top and falling into water at the bottom.
Airco DH1
Dh1
A single-seat, pusher prop, escort and patrolfighter. Used in the UK in a Home Defence role until superseded in 1917.
Slip Shed
A wooden or metal structure covering a shipbuilding slip way.
Corning House
A processing house containing equipment for sieving caked gunpowder to produce graded granules.
A site used for the safe storage of the art held in the national collections. During the Second World War many paintings, sculptures and works of art were moved to modified mines for safe keeping to protect them against bomb damage.
Art Storage Facility
Barrage Balloon Site
A site where a single large balloon was attached by fine wire cables to the ground to form an aerial obstruction to attacking enemy aircraft.
Crest
Coat Of Arms
Includes crests, hatchments and supporters.
Gelatine Works (Explosive)
A factory or works principally engaged in the manufacture of blasing or explosive gelatine.
A gun emplacement which conforms to Department of Fortification and Works drawing number 55415.
Gun Emplacement (Type 55415)
A protected building or site used for the safe storage of chemical weapons.
Chemical Weapons Store
A military side-opening aircraft hangar originally designed for seaplanes and used RNAS bases from 1916. Steel framed with asbestos or corrugated iron cladding.
Seaplane Shed (Type F)
A gun emplacement equipped with anti aircraft artillery.
Anti Aircraft Gun Emplacement
Nissen Hut
A prefabricated structure of a steel frame clad in corrugated iron. Semi-circular in section they were used as accommodation for the armed forces and, during WWII, as emergency housing for bombed out civilians. Also used for storage.
A factory for the assembly of bicycles.
Bicycle Factory
Chimney
Chimney used on an industrial or commercial site.
Chimney Stack
Dh4
Airco DH4
A two-seat, single-engine bomber. Fast, versatile and well armed, but with a fuel tank poorly placed between pilot and gunner, was considered to be the best day bomber of the First World War. Later entered civil service.
Phenol Works
A chemical works engaged in the production of the coal tar derivative phenol, a chemical used for the manufacture of explosives during WWI.
Gun Emplacement (Type 55503)
A gun emplacment which conforms to Department of Fortification and Works drawing number 55503.
A storage facility used for the accommodation and dispersal of military vehicles.
Vehicle Depot
Animal Memorial
Horse Memorial
Dog Memorial
A site used to train military personnel in the use of equipment.
Instructional Site
Storage Building
A building used for the storage of equipment and ordnance.
Bomb Crater
A depression in the ground caused by the explosion of a mine or bombshell.
A pillbox with walls that have been thickened to protect against shells.
Pillbox (Shellproof)
A workshop or factory where the barrels of cannon are cast.
Cannon Foundry
Mark 16 or the sixteenth variant of an aircraft with its associated modifications.
MkXVI
A building with first aid facilities to deal with accidents and other medical emergencies.
First Aid Post
Armoury
A secure building where weaponry and ammunition are kept.
A building used for the daily administration of the Royal Navy.
Naval Headquarters
A building, on an airfield, used to house a fire engine.
Fire Tender House
A factory used for the manufacture of ordnance including small arms, ammunition, artillery pieces and armoured fighting vehicles.
Ministry Of Munitions Factory
Naval Dockyard
A naval base that builds, repairs, docks or converts warships, and is manned by civilian engineers and workers and administered by engineer duty officers.
A building housing fire engines, and equipment and a permanent fire-fighting force.
Fire Station
Official Residence
Used where an existing building is designated as the residence of an official.
Operations Block
A building of varying designs intended for directing military aviation operations. Normally associated with military airfields.
Nieuport
A French aeroplane company that primarily built racing aircraft before World War I and fighter aircraft during World War I and between the wars. First set up in 1902 as manufacturer of engine components, then aircraft in 1911 as Nieuport et Deplante.
An aircraft with a single wing, or plane, either side of its fuselage.
Monoplane
Sound Mirror Building
A building associated with the early 20th century acoustic detection system.