Our Mission
Many of the casualties of the Second World War are commemorated in one way or another but it has become apparent to us that there are still others whose sacrifices are not recorded. Nobody can be at fault for this, it is probably an impossible task to complete 100%.
Also official list are just that, they give no indication of the background or of the extent of the personal tragedies involved.
We hope that as our site develops, at least in regard to this incidents, we can rectify this in some small way.
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having lived there at I’d love to see those photos of the event, by email if copyright permission is a problem
My father was playing in the field adjacent to the incident 18 crash site. He was 5 years old at the time and was playing with his two older brothers. He remembers it vividly and recounts the incident as follows: “it was a bright, sunny September morning. We heard a roar in the sky. We were playing between the house and the field where it landed. The explosion took the wind out of our lungs and blew us into the hole we’d been digging. We ran back into the house and all the crockery had jumped off the Welsh dresser onto the floor. We went back to the site in the afternoon and there was a terrific great hole. It landed quite near the piggery which ran parallel with the Great South West Road. It actually landed in a beetroot field and there were bits of beetroot everywhere. We initially thought it was parts of people’s bodies”. My dad recounted this to me just now. It’s a story he’s re-told many times as it had a profound effect on him. The details never change. I hope you find this interesting.