Air Raid Damage Reports Brentwood Division Essex Fire Service July 1940.
Date Time Location Damage
08/07/1940 Great 1 – A.A. unexploded shell on Marshes at rear of
Wakering Home Farm. No damage or casualties.
09/07/1940 03.00 Foulness 7 – H.Es. 3 near Court End Village. 3 centre of
Island Experimental Station. 3 horses and 4 sheep killed. Crops fired. Slight damage to a house.
09/07/1940 23.00 South 24 – H.Es in vicinity of Essex Way Water Tower
Benfleet and Highwood. 6 houses damaged some seriously. 2 slight casualties. Telephone wires, electric cables and gas main damaged. Essex Way closed.
13/07/1940 Paglesham 1 – A.A. unexploded shell in field at South Hall
Farm East End. No damage of casualties.
13/07/1940 Vange 1 – H.E. unexploded in a field off Paynters Hill. No
casualties or damage.
17/07/1940 23.15 Foulness 7 – H.Es on Saltings. No damage or casualties.
Island
17/07/1940 23.16 Eastwood Rayleigh Road A.1015 closed. Burst water main.
19/07/1940 Pitsea London Shoeburyness Road A.13 closed. Bridge
reconstruction.
21/07/1940 01.50 Potton Island 2 – H.Es 1 is unexploded opposite the creek
between New England and Foulness Island. No damage or casualties.
21/07/1940 01.50 Paglesham 2 – H.Es 1 is unexploded at West Hall and about
30 I.Bs at Stennetts Farm. No casualties. Slight damage to Barley crop.
21/07/1940 01.50 Stambridge 2 – H.Es 200 yards South East from Sewage
Disposal Works. No damage or casualties.
22/07/1940 23.47 Thundersley 1 – H.E. at Old Brickfields 50 yards from Birches
Road. Telephone wires down and a few windows broken.
26/07/1940 22.20 Great Warley 5 – H.Es in garden of The Goldings. Outhouse demolished. Slight damage to the house. 5 cows
killed. 2 had to be destroyed.
27/07/1940 01.15 Canvey 17 – H.Es 1is unexploded at Marine Approach
Island (Safe 30th Inst) 9 exploded in fields of White
Farm between Vicarage and Meynell Avenue. 8 exploded on Labworth Estate. 5 slight casualties. 3 houses badly damaged, 5 slightly. Damage to gas and water mains. Meynell Avenue closed ( open 18/8/40)