Air Raid Damage Reports Brentwood Division Essex Fire Service September 1942.

Date                Time   Location         Damage

01/09/1942    14.00  Ramsden       2 small boys were playing with a cartridge

Bellhouse      (believed 303) when it exploded and caused slight injuries to both boys.

01/09/1942    Found  South            1 – H.E. unexploded bomb found 50 yards North

Benfleet       East of Boyce Golf Club House.  Believed to have fallen 7.11.40.  (Disposed of BDS 5.9.42).

05/09/1942    15.00  Great              2 – H.Es exploded in open fields 300 yards N.W. of

                                    Wakering       Abbott’s Hall.  No casualties or damage.

09/09/1942    07.00  Foulness       Found on shore off Eastwick Head part of a

barrage balloon with poles 8ft long and balloon fabric attached.  RAF informed.

12/09/1942    Found  South            1 – H.E. unexploded bomb found in the garden of

Benfleet       253 Philmead Road.  Report Centre informed.  (Disposed of BDS 6.10.42).

13/09/1942 Found  South              1 – Unexploded A.A. Shell found in a field 120

Benfleet           yards S.W. of Railway Bridge South Benfleet.  Date and time of falling unknown.  (Disposed of B.D.S. 28.9.42).

15/09/1942    15.00  Paglesham    1 – Unexploded A.A. Shell found in the garden of

“Red Croft” East End.  Time and date of falling unknown.  (Disposed of BDS 22.9.42).

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