Air Raid Damage Reports Brentwood Division Essex Fire Service 16 August 1941.

Date                Time   Location         Damage

16/08/1941    18.30  Great              A Naval Barrage balloon grounded in a field 300

Wakering       yards North of Twyford Avenue.  Fabric torn.  Letters in black on side “R.N.” & on the nose “MARY and 5804” RAF Rochford informed.

16/08/1941                Vange            1 – H.E unexploded found in a field 30 yards North

of L.M.S. Railway and 200 yards East of Timberlog Lane.  No damage or casualties.  Date of falling believed to be 15.9.40.