Date                Time   Location         Damage

01/02/1943    05.40  Pitsea             A drifting Barrage Balloon struck the electric cable

in Northlands Park Drive, exploded, deflated and caught in tree on Ballards Farm.  Slight damage to property.  No casualties.  Removed RAF 3.2.43.

02/02/1943    13.30  Ingrave           A deflated Barrage Balloon grounded at Willow

Farm.  Inscribed KB. Mark V. 8529).  No casualties or damage.  Removed RAF 3.2.43.

03/02/1943    Found  South            1 – A.A. Shell unexploded near Benfleet Railway

Benfleet       Station.  No damage or casualties.  Believed to have fallen 12.1.43  Removed by BDS.

04/02/1943    20.35  East                1 – Paramine exploded in a meadow 300 yards

Horndon        West of Thorndon Avenue.  2 slight casualties.  Extensive damage to property.  Overhead electric cables damaged.  Tail cap handed over to Naval Authorities.

07/02/1943    Found  Barling         A Naval Kite Balloon on the Saltings.  (Inscribed

                                                            RN. KB.6 S.1. No 16951).

08/02/1943    Found  Laindon       1 – A.A. Shell unexploded in the garden of

“Enymion”, 75 yards South of Ramsden Road and 50 yards East of Huxe’s Farm chase.  No damage or casualties.

 08/02/1943   12.00  Mountnessing          A Miles Master Aircraft No. W 9055 from

No. 7 PAPU.  RAF Peterborough made a forced landing in a meadow 100 yards South of Main Road A. 12.  The machine sustained slight damage to the undercarriage and the propeller.  Piloted by Pilot Officer Goode, accompanied by Pilot Officer Woodridge owing to lack of petrol.  Woodridge received a slight cut on face.  Both conveyed to North Weald Aerodrome.  Guard mounted.  RAF informed.

09/02/1943    08.35  South             Frederick George Toovey, 45 years of Ivy Cottage

Benfleet         High Street received superficial injury to face and head by flying pieces of wood when the roof of Knightley’s gun bullets when a plane tried to machine gun a train in the railway station.

09/02/1943    Found   Sutton          A deflated Barrage Balloon in field 400 yards East

                                                            of Sutton (Inscribed R.N.)  RAF informed.