https://www.wrsonline.co.uk/big-ben-rocket-strikes/october-1944/ Dedicated to the Civilian victims. Wed, 28 May 2014 09:56:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.wrsonline.co.uk/big-ben-rocket-strikes/october-1944/#comment-73 Wed, 28 May 2014 09:56:07 +0000 http://www.panmure.mgjs.co.uk/?page_id=57#comment-73 I recall seeing a V2 exploding in open fields, in Chingford, towards Epping Forest, possibly Soper’s Farm, at sometime in September/October 1944. I was playing truant and it was a warm, partly cloudy day. I recall one child, going down into the crater, possibly killed or injured by the collapse of the crater edge. I was 12 at the time. I also have memories of various V1 incidents in and around Chingford.

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