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At the end of the First World War an army camp was set up in Old Hartley to service Robert’s Battery on Crag Point. This camp was built in a field just to the north of the village across a field from the Battery itself. The camp included Officers’ Quarters barrack huts, latrines, cookhouse, bathhouse, and boiler house. The flat nature of the coastal plain meant that the camp also required its own water tower to maintain the water pressure. Most of the camp was temporary accommodation which was disposed of in 1922 but the boundary wall, the water tower and the defensible walls of the latrines pierced with gun holes to allow soldiers to defend the camp even when sitting on the toilet, are still in place. The best preserved is Fort House itself and its distinctive octagonal tower. This housed the Officer’s Quarters and a Range Finder Post for aiming the nearby Battery gun and is now a private house.