Reporting for duty – a centenary of defence operations at Porton Down

Posted on 7 March, 2016 by Advance 

Above:

King George V visited Porton Down in 1918.


He was the first person to carry out defence operations at the site which was bought in response to the first use of chemical weapons in 1915.

Since then, the work at Porton Down has developed and evolved, with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) now present on the 7,000 acres of defence-owned property.



The Dstl100 timeline
commemorates a century of groundbreaking work at Porton Down.