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A few mentions on the web…

Recollections of a 1939 Evacuee
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/82/a3071882.shtml
“So there we were, safely evacuated away from the danger of being involved in air raids on Edinburgh, the very first German bomber to be shot down on British soil landed on the bleak moors at Humbie, the second, a Heinkel 111 brought down 1215, 9th Feb 1940, 3 survivors 1 dead, in a field on Rhodes farm at the back of the town, again it was overrun with souvenir hunting school lads during their lunch break before the authorities managed to fence it off, eventually it was loaded on to an artic-lorry known as a ‘Queen Mary’ taken to RAF Turnhouse aerodrome in Edinburgh, it was learned after many years that same German bomber was totally re-fitted and used operationally by the RAF.”

http://www.visitoruk.com/historydetail.php?id=21867&cid=1207&f=Musselburgh

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205227837