There’s also a garden in Bermondsey with a couple of boxes of 20mm ammunition buried in it. Someone I used to work with was on 340 Squadron at Biggin Hill, conveniently close to Bermondsey. I never found out why but there was a need to “lose” them so he took them home and buried them.

I know of a similar case during my service, prior to an AOC’s inspection the Armours hid a practice bomb as they hated their boss, being missing a bomb from ones inventory during an audit is a serious problem, but he managed some how to arrange for a bomb to replace it, fine until the morning of the inspection when he found the armourers had put the missing bomb back, he then was one up which was even worse as he couldn’t claim it had been dropped but not recorded, so he had to hide it until he could get rid of it, which he did back to the source after the inspection.

I myself during an inspection of the barrack block in NI opened the top locker on the wardrobe in my room (that was never used as you had to stand on a table to reach it) and found a load of 7.62 rounds… panic mode set in… so I gathered them up and nipped down the the armoury, banged on the window, told the guy what I had found and he said, “Ohh we’ll have those off you mate, they’ll come in handy as we sometimes come up short after range firing etc” handed over and glad to see the back of them, had visions of me having hat off interview.