Date                Time   Location         Damage

03/07/1942    Found  South            3 – 2″ British Trench Mortars near the Seaplane

Benfleet         obstructions, Benfleet Creek.  Removed to Canvey Island Police Station.

03/07/1942    Found  Billericay      1 – H.E. unexploded at Snail’s Farm Jackson’s

Lane.  Time of falling not known.  No damage or casualties.

07/07/1942    Found  Rayleigh      1 – H.E. unexploded in shrubland 75 yards North

West of junction of Warwick Road and The Drive (both are unmade roads).  Date of falling believed January 1941.  No damage or casualties.

09/07/1942    08.40  Raweth          Bombardier No 1474857 Harry Owens age 20

years, a single man of the 329th A.A. Heavy Battery R.A. was examining a hand grenade at the A.A. gun site when it exploded killing him instantly.  The Army Hut in which the explosion occurred was damaged.

09/07/1942    Found  South            1 – A.A. unexploded Shell in a field 200 yards

Benfleet         South of “Winifred” a house in Thundersley Park Road.  No damage or casualties.  Date and time of falling not known.

09/07/1942    Found  Canvey         1 – H.E. unexploded in a field at the Western end

Island           of Waterside Farm.  No damage or casualties.  Date of falling believed 24.10.40.  (Disposed of BDS   42).

15/07/1942    Found  Little             1 – H.E. exploded and formed a Camouflet in a

Burstead      field 500 yards S-SW of Stockwell Hall.  No damage or casualties.  Date of falling believed 1940.  (Disposed of BDS by explosive charge 23.7.42).

22/07/1942    12.20  Great              Mr Albert Collicut of “Seaview Road, age 57 years,

Wakering       was employed at “O” Battery, New Ranges, Shoeburyness fixing plates in the butt, when a round was fired from the gun killing him instantly.

28/07/1942                Foulness       1 – H.E unexploded found in a ditch 100 yards

Island             North of cart track and 300 yards South East of Eastwick Farm.  No damage or casualties.

30/07/1942    02.40  Langdon        1 – A.A. Shell exploded in a house “Nightingale”

Hills                Lee Chapel Lane, causing considerable damage.  There were no casualties.