Air Raid Damage Reports Brentwood Division Essex Fire Service 23 February 1941.
Date Time Location Damage
23/02/1941 09.45 Great Sapper Alonza Hemsworth, 20 years and Sapper
Wakering Edward Nolson 19 years were working in a mine field at Wakering Stairs, when a land mine exploded killing Sapper Hemsworth and injuring Sapper Nolson who was conveyed to Shoebury Military Hospital.