Comments on: Incident Number 822

By: Kim sandwell

Kim sandwell — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 20:52:07 +0000

My late father robert george sandwell organised a plaque for this incident on the aniversary he was an apprentice there at the time the plaque of remembrance was on the main entrance.

By: Steve Vargerson

Steve Vargerson — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 20:04:26 +0000

My late uncle Ken was in one of the first heavy rescue teams to attend Bawns, he was 19 and being the youngest and fittest his job was to retrieve the body parts that hung in the trees. Its ironic that several months earlier than this incident he was on the top deck of a trollybus when another V2 landed in front of the bus near Roger Ascham school on billet road. The roof came off the bus and the blast perforated his eardrum and knocked him out. He lived most of his life in Walthamstow and passed away last year aged 99.

By: Roger stevens

Roger stevens — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:40:14 +0000

My grandmother was a victim in this event she lived in chewton road on the edge of blackhorse lane she was pulled from the wreckage but died from her injuries although the two houses were destroyed if you look at them now you can see the different color brick where they were rebuilt on the end of chewton road, there was a dish of fresh eggs sitting on the dresser untouched

By: David G Green

David G Green — Sat, 04 May 2024 00:05:40 +0000

My grandfather Reginald Green of W. Bawn & Co was killed in the raid of19 Feb 1945, as related by my father Geoffrey Green a director of Bawns and a son of Reginald. Geoffrey, worked for Bawns and survived the raid as he was out on a business call. Geoffrey told me of the man who had survived by being in the toilet. In Feb 1995 I held a special lunch for employees of Bawns who had survived the Feb 1945 V2 raid. The lunch was in Bury St Edmunds near to the new Bawns factory. The survivor employees recounted to me their moments before the V2 attack. One survivor (a woman, sorry I do not have her name) was in the welding bay, paused and looked up to see a white plume of smoke; then all went blank because of the huge explosion. I well recall Arthur Hewlett, electrician at Bawns, Blackhorse Lane, Walthamstow. I saw him often in the 1950s and 1960s when visiting Bawns, I was born in Epping Essex but now live in Bury St Edmunds.

By: Brian Newson

Brian Newson — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 20:43:24 +0000

My very first memory ever was cutting my hand picking up glass from our shattered lean to and french doors at the back of our house at 40 Worcester Rd. I was born in october 1942 and lived out the war with my mum in a morrison shelter in the front room. I would have been 2 years and 5 months old on this date.
The devastation in the Ukraine brought back memories and some research to this website. I am saddened by the number of deaths and how close we came to being one of the casualties of this one event. We lived in this house until moving to Canada in 1957.

By: M. Woodhouse

M. Woodhouse — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 14:22:56 +0000

My father Arthur & his brother Charlie was killed in this incident. The name of the factory where he worked was unknown to me so I have found this post interesting. As in most cases family didn’t mention too much about what went on during the war, just odd snippets. My father was aged 36 I was six months.