Date                Time   Location         Damage

13/10/1942    Found  Doddinghurst          1 – Unexploded H.E. found in field 1/4 mile

South of Park Farm, Doddinghurst.  Date and time of falling unknown.

19/10/1942    11.00  Rayleigh        1 – U.X.B. fell in Wright’s Nurseries Hullbridge

                                                            Road.  No damage or casualties.

19/10/1942    12.08  Brentwood     3 – 500  kg H.E fell in Westwood Avenue causing 3

fatal casualties (1 female and 2 children) 14 seriously injured  and admitted to hospital (10 females 1 male and 3 children) and a number of minor casualties.  Extensive damage was caused to property and main Westwood Avenue (unclassified) completely blocked by craters and debris.  1 500 kg H.E. exploded in open fields 50 yards East of Golden Fleece P.H. Brook Street.  No casualties or damage.

25/10/1942    Found  Great            1 – Small Yellow U.X.B. on New England Island,

Wakering       500 yards N.E. of Havengore Farmhouse and 400 yards N of Foulness Road.  Date and time of falling unknown.  (Disposed of BDS 31.10.42).

26/10/1942    08.45  Little                A Naval Barrage Balloon was found grounded at

Wakering       Barrow Hall Farm marked R.N. 50279.  Naval Control informed.

26/10/1942    12.45  Rochford       4 – 250 kg H.Es exploded in gardens at rear of

Ashingdon Road and Roach Avenue as a result of which 7 persons were injured (1 seriously and 6 slightly).  Extensive damage was done to 15 houses and slight damage to approximately 60 others.

26/10/1942    12.46  Rochford       A German Dornier 217 crashed on a hut on

Rochford Aerodrome after being hit by gun fire and was completely destroyed.  Two of the crew were killed, 1 seriously injured and taken prisoner.  3 RAF personnel were trapped in the hut on which the plane crashed – one was killed, one seriously injured and one slightly injured.  High tension electric cables over Stambridge Road (Millbourne Farm) were broken by the plane colliding with them and put out of action.

26/10/1942    Found  Little              A fawn deflated Barrage Balloon marked R.N.

Wakering       50279, believed to have grounded during the night of 25/26.10.42 at Barrow Hall Farm.  Report Centre and Naval Control informed.

27/10/1942    17.05  Ramsden       An explosion occurred in a Military workshop at

Ramsden Hall occupied by 14th Training Battalion as a result of which 4 soldiers and 1 ATS private were killed, and 9 soldiers injured.  The cause of the explosion due to accidental handling of MacNaughton Tubes.

27/10/1942    Found  Rochford      A Naval Barrage Balloon, Mark 6 No. 5660x  was

found grounded at Beauchamps Farm, Shopland.  Naval Control informed.

27/10/1942    Found  Hawkwell     A Naval Barrage Balloon, Mark 6 No. 35669 found

grounded in a damaged condition at Hawkwell Chase Nurseries.  Naval Control informed

27/10/1942    Found  Hockley        A Naval Barrage Balloon in damaged condition

Mark 6 No. 55360 grounded in military camp in Lower Road.  Naval Control informed.

27/10/1942    Found   Rochford     A Naval Barrage Balloon No 507107 with cable

attached grounded at Little Wakering Wick Farm.  Naval Control informed.

27/10/1942                Downham     A British Meteorological Balloon with parachute

                                                            and instruments attached was found at Brock Hill.

28/10/1942                                        Private Albert Thomas Kirby (N. T/204617) of the

202nd O.C.T.U. Royal Army Service Corps, stationed at Southend, was on night operations when blank ammunition was being used.  He was struck in the abdomen by a bullet (Ball ammunition) and removed to St Andrew’s Hospital Billericay where he died on the 1 November.

31/10/1942    0.15    Great              1 – 500 kg S.D.H.E and 7 Firepot I.Bs exploded at

Wakering       Star Lane Brickfields and 1 Firepot I.B. failed to explode.  No casualties or damage.  1 500 kg S.D.H.E. exploded 200 yards S.W. of Exhibition Lane, High Street causing slight damage to approximately 7 houses.  No casualties.

31/10/1942    20.30  Basildon        1 – A.A. Shell exploded in a garden at the side of

Oaklands Bungalow, Gardiners Lane, 50yards North of Oak Road and 100 yards West of Gardiners Lane.  No damage or casualties.

31/10/1942    20.40  Basildon        1 – Unexploded Shell found in a ploughed field 200

yards West of Gardiners Lane and 100 yards South of Oak Road between Sumners Hill Cottage and Nutton Wood.  No damage or casualties.  (Disposed of BDS 15.12.42).