Tower of London - The Summer of 1915 - Plans for a Miniature Rifle Range

Tower of London - Miniature Rifle Range - 1914-1916 (Imperial War Museum - Fair Use) Last year, I wrote a post about the Miniature Rifle Range at the Tower of London. The rifle range was used for the firing squad executions of eight World War I spies and one World War II spy (Josef Jakobs). Two other World War I spies, Haicke Petrus Marinus Janssen and Willem Johannes Roos were not executed in the rifle range, but rather shot in the Tower moat. Their execution took place on 30 July, 1915. Why were these two men not executed in the miniature rifle range? Historical documents are a bit sketchy but simply indicate that the miniature rifle range was "not available". Tower of London - Miniature Rifle Range - 1914-1916 (Imperial War Museum - Fair Use) In October, 2014, I visited the National Archives in Kew and had a look at file WORKS 31/813. The file contained an architectural plan for a proposed miniature rifle range at the Tower of London, dated 19 July 1915. T