Date                Time   Location         Damage

15/01/1944    0.00    Cranham       1 – Ux. A.A. Shell fell in meadow 100 yards E of

                                                            Woodlands Moor Lane.  N.D.C.

15/01/1944    9.45    Billericay        1 – A.A. Shell exploded on a shed at the rear of

Tree-tops Western Road.  N.C. but shed demolished.

19/01/1944    1.15    Canvey          A British Aircraft passed over Canvey Island and

Island             jettisoned a petrol tank which dropped on the sea wall about 150 yards W of Benfleet Sewerage outfall and exploded causing a crater in wall 6′.

21/01/1944    1.25    Billericay        1 – A.A. Shell exploded by side of footway at Lt.

                                                            Norsey Road.  N.D.C.

21/01/1944    2.00    Canvey          2 – A.A. Shells exploded on grass verge at Lt.

                                    Island             Brickhouse Farm Northwick.  N.D.C.

21/01/1944    21.50  Hadleigh        1 – A.A. Shell exploded in garden 30 yards N of the

rear of Sea View London Road.  N.C. very slight damage.

21/01/1944                Hadleigh        1 – A.A. Shell exploded in Hadleigh Gt Wood. 

                                                            N.D.C.

21/01/1944                North              1 – Ux. A.A. Shell in ploughed field 60 yards W of

                                    Benfleet         St Johns Florence Road.  N.D.C.

22/01/1944    04.45  Billericay        1 – A.A. Shell exploded on Waractel, Norsey Road. 

                                                            N.C.  Damage to property.

22/01/1944    05.10  Vange            A large container of I.Bs exploded in field 50 yards

                                                            W of West End of Hillcrest View.  N.D.C.

22/01/1944    05.10  Wickford        1 – Ux. A.A. Shell fell on footpath adjoining

Southend Road Wickford adjoining Southend Road.  N.D.C.

22/01/1944    05.10  Vange            A large number of I.Bs exploded in the vicinity of

Paynters Hill.  1 fatal, 1 serious and 1 slight casualty.  Extensive (Rest of entry missing on original).

22/01/1944    05.11  Wickford        1 – A.A. Shell exploded in garden 50 yards N of

                                                            Hedgerows, Highcliff Road.  N.D.C.

22/01/1944    05.20  Great Warley 1 – Ux. A.A. Shell on verge of Great Warley St. nr

                                                            Waterworks.  N.C.

22/01/1944    05.20  Great Warley 1 – Firepot I.B. fell on grass verge between track of

Southend Arterial Road A.127 opposite Codham Hall Farm.  N.C.  Water main damaged.

22/01/1944    05.20  Great Warley 8 – Ux. H.E’s fell on grass verge of Southend

Arterial Road A. 127 opposite Codhams Hall Farm.  N.C.  Water main damaged.

22/01/1944    05.00  Pilgrims          1 – A.A. Shell exploded in field 100 yards N of

                                    Hatch             Day’s Farm.  N.D.C.

22/01/1944    05.30  Hullbridge     1 – A.A. Shell exploded in back garden of Valley

                                                            View Windemere Avenue.  N.D.C.

22/01/1944    05.30  Vange            1 – A.A. Shell exploded in pond on Riverside Farm. 

                                                            N.D.C.

24/01/1944    22.54  Billericay        A British Meteorological Apparatus No. B4805 with

Balloon and Parachute attached fell in fields near the Anchorage Buckwyns Estate.

28/01/1944    22.45  Foulness       1 – H.E. exploded on sea wall 100 yards East of

                                    Island             Clarks Hard.  No casualties.

29/01/1944    20.30  Mountnessing          1 – A.A. Shell exploded at Bacons Farm. 

                                                            No casualties or damage.

29/01/1944    20.40  Doddinghurst            1 – Ux. A.A. Shell fell 16 yards from

                                                            Maytree Peartree Green.  N.D.C.

29/01/1944    20.45  South Weald 1 – Ux. A.A. Shell in field on Sth side of Old

                                                            Vicarage.  N.D.C.

29/01/1944    20.50 South Weald 1 – H.E. exploded 240 yards Sth of St Vincents

                                                            Hamlet in open ground.  N.D.C.

29/01/1944    20.50  Langdon        2 – Ph.I.Bs exploded in field 100 yards S

                                    Hills                Sanatorium.  N.D.C.

29/01/1944    20.55  Hutton            1 – Exploded A.A. Shell.  Slight damage to

                                                            property.  No casualties.

29/01/1944    20.55  Ramsden       1 – H.E. exploded.  Hut demolished 23 soldiers

                                    Heath             killed.

29/01/1944    20.55  Raweth          A number of I.B’s fell destroying 2 straw stacks. 

                                                            No casualties.

29/01/1944    20.59  Downham     3 – H.Es exploded in Hawkwood Road.  Slight

                                                            damage to 1 house.  No casualties.

29/01/1944    21.00  Coxtie Green 1 – A.A. Shell exploded in grounds of Chafford

                                                            School.  No damage or casualties.

29/01/1944    21.00  Little                1 – H.E. Ux. 300 yards West of Lt. Burstead

Burstead        Church.  No damage or casualties and 4 H.Es fell in fields South of St Margarets Farm.  N.D.C.

29/01/1944    21.00  Billericay        1 – H.E. exploded in field 200 yards E of Whites

Farm and 1 – H.E. exploded in field 200 yards E of Cullis’s Factory Southend Road.  N.D.C.

29/01/1944    21.00  South             A large number of I.Bs fell on Marshland.  N.D.C.

Fambridge

29/01/1944    21.00  Hadleigh        Approx. 100 I.Bs fell on marshes on Salvation

                                                            Army Colony Hadleigh.  N.D.C.

29/01/1944    21.00  Coxtie Green 1 – A.A. Shell exploded in ditch 250 yards NE of

                                                            Chafford School.  N.D.C.

29/01/1944    21.00  Coxtie Green 1 – A.A. Shell exploded in grounds of Chafford

                                                            School.  No damage or casualties.

29/01/1944    21.00  Ramsden       1 – Ux. A.A. Shell fell in field 300 yards SW London

                                    Bellhouse      Road.  N.D.C.

29/01/1944    21.00 Ramsden        1 – H.E. exploded in Hawks Wood.  N.D.C.

Heath

29/01/1944    21.00  Raweth          1 – A.A. Shell unexploded in open field at Watery

                                                            Lane.  N.D.C.

29/01/1944    21.00  Raweth          1 – Ux. A.A. Shell fell in meadow 60 yards West of

                                                            Boxes Farmhouse.  N.D.C.

29/01/1944    21.03  Brentwood     A large number I.Bs 10 dwellings slight damage.  1

                                                            slight casualty.

29/01/1944    21.05  Pitsea             A large number of I.Bs Railway signals damaged. 

N.C.

29/01/1944    21.05  Pitsea             3 – H.Es in field Ux. 200 yards -250 yards Sth of

Railway Line and 1 mile E of Railway Station.  N.D.C.

29/01/1944    21.09  Rochford       A large number of I.Bs.  No casualties or damage.

29/01/1944    21.10  Great              1 – H.E. Ux. Fell at Havengore Road Gt Wakering. 

                                     Wakering      N.D.C.

29/01/1944    21.13  Ingrave           1 – H.E. and 1 Ph.I.B No casualties or damage.

29/01/1944    21.15 Rochford       Large number of I.Bs 3 straw stacks destroyed.

29/01/1944    21.15  Pilgrims          1 – Ux. A.A. Shell fell in Awkard Lane.  N.D.C.

Hatch

29/01/1944    21.15  Ramsden       1 – Ux. A.A. Shell fell in garden 50 yards NE of The

                                    Bellhouse      Blenheims, Glebe Road.  N.D.C.

29/01/1944    21.51  Foulness       Large number of I.Bs overhead electric cable

                                    Island             damaged.

29/01/1944    22.10  Childerditch  1 – A.A. Shell exploded on up track of Arterial

                                                            Road.  No casualties or damage.

29/01/1944    22.10  Little Warley  1 – exploded incendiary container full of I.Bs in

garden of “Lyndhurst” Hall Lane, slight damage to tiles of 2 bungalows.  No casualties.

29/01/1944    22.15  Hullbridge     Large number I.Bs one shed on farm damaged.

29/01/1944    Unknown  Wickford 1 – A.A. Shell exploded in field 300 yards of

                                                            Wickford Church.  N.D.C.

29/01/1944    Unknown  Mountnessing   1 – A.A. Shell in Main Road.  Slight damage

                                                            to 1 cottage.  No casualties.

29/01/1944    Unknown Raweth    An unignited parachute flare at Hylands Farm.

29/01/1944    Unknown  Ingrave   1 – Ux. A.A. Shell on the verge on South side of

road, 100 yards East of Dairy Farm, Tilbury Road. N.D.C.

29/01/1944    Unknown  Great       1 – H.E. 500 Kg Ux.B. in Codham Hall Wood and

                                         Warley      200 yards N of Arterial Road.  N.D.C.

29/01/1944    Unknown  Dunton    1 – Ux. A.A. Shell fell in field 700 yards due West

                                                            of Dunton Church.  N.D.C.

29/01/1944    Unknown  Bentley   1 – A.A. Shell exploded in field 200 yards W of

                                                            White Cottage.  N.D.C.

29/01/1944    Unknown  Runwell  1 – Ux. A.A. Shell fell in garden of the Oaks

                                                            Runwell Road.  N.D.C.

29/01/1944    Unknown  Little         1 – A.A. Shell Ux. Fell 300 yards SW Sudburys

                                        Burstead   Farm.  N.D.C.

29/01/1944    Unknown  South      1 – H.E. fell in field at Vicarage Lane causing a

                                          Weald      camouflet.