beersheba Posted 20 October , 2006 Share Posted 20 October , 2006 I've just started collections of milk from farms this week,and last night was going along the old A20 in kent when i past a lage collection of CWGC headstones and CoS..pulling up the tanker down the road i walked back to find 46 REME guys all killed on the same day in june 44..My first thought was a V1,and on calling the REME musum today found that to be the case..all wiped out in one bomb.doddlebug alley claims some more victims..Being a bit pleased with myself for my deductive skills i find else where in the grounds are 36 WW1 graves from the canadian hospitial based near by as well...does anyone else know more about this site.?? now the M20 is there it seems the site is bypassed by the crowds just like in france.. I'll be going past there again next week to track down the WW1 graves and pay a visit to them..any kent pals know much more about either the hospitial or the V1 incident..Reme museum says they get regular calls about these graves.. Cheers Andy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HERITAGE PLUS Posted 20 October , 2006 Share Posted 20 October , 2006 Andy War Hospitals in/near Lenham Foresters Hall (1915? - December 1918) Stanmore House VAD Hospital (35 beds)(Kent/134)(May 1915 – December 1918) The County Sanatorium - Canadian Special Hospital (Tubercular) (7 December 1917 – 7 July 1919 Source: http://www.juroch.demon.co.uk/hospitals.htm One of the WW2 men: Craftsman Harold Brown, 14531164, 6 Tank Brigade Workshop, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Harold’s parents were John and Margaret. He was married to Lena and they lived in Cheadle Heath. He joined the army in February 1943 and, on 24 June 1944, was at the REME Workshop when it was hit by a German flying bomb. He was one of 46 soldiers killed. They are buried together in a collective grave at Lenham Cemetery, Surrey. Harold was 37. His son was 14 and daughter just 3. Source: http://members.aol.com/Cgwarmemorial/html/cheadleww2.htm Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter B Posted 20 October , 2006 Share Posted 20 October , 2006 Hello Andy, have a look at this link http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_report...0166&mode=1 Regards Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beersheba Posted 22 October , 2006 Author Share Posted 22 October , 2006 pete thanks..i'd gone to the cwgc site first thanks,just was wondering if there was anyone with some in fill to the story aboout the Reme guys.. cheers Dave for that as well. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian turner Posted 23 October , 2006 Share Posted 23 October , 2006 Andy, Pure speculation, but I think there were temporary landing grounds being contructed in the Ashford area in the leadup to D-Day, which may explain the presence of the REME? Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beersheba Posted 26 October , 2006 Author Share Posted 26 October , 2006 ian. dont think so mate these guys where attached to the 6th guards arm'd Bde REME museum said they where waiting to go over to france when a lucky shot with a V1 hit the camp... Seems leke REME musuem get the same call once every few months about that site.. Cheers anyway. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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