Shoreham Aircraft Museum

(head reporter & editor of museum newsletter, digger, researcher, and museum volunteer when we’re open)

Shorty01,

It was indeed a Dornier 17Z-2, WNr 3457, coded 5K+JM, of 4/KG3 which crashed on Barnehurst Golf Course at 2-45pm on the 15th September 1940, about a mile from where I’m sitting now. After AA fire had damaged the Dornier, it was shot down by Sqn/Ldr J Sample of No 504 (County of Nottingham) Sqn. The crew all bailed out, two of the crew were killed, one was possibly killed, and the pilot was captured wounded, after which he spent some time on one of the Luftwaffe wards at the Royal Herbert Hospital, Shooters Hill, Woolwich.

Part of the bombload exploded at 3pm, killing one souviner hunter outright, and fatally injuring 1 Special Constable & two CD personnel. Another civilian was very probably fatally injured as a result of this incident. The CD people, Police & Fire Brigade had great difficulty in keeping civilians away from the wreckage, even after the explosion, according to the local papers of the time.

We have in our museum a few relics from this incident, which were picked up at the time by a local resident.

I/we would be very interested to hear what your parents have to say about the incident (or any of the below), so I can PM you my address, or you can PM me their address, if you can get them to jot their memories down for us.

Apart from this Dornier, during the BoB there was also a Bf109 that crashed at Welling (20/10/40), and a Hurricane at Joyden’s Wood (7/10/40). Other crashes within the present day Bexley London Borough were a BE.2c (31/1/16), another Dornier 17 (3/11/40), an A-20G Havoc (24/4/44), and a Meteor F.8 (13/10/56).

Geoff.

Steve,

There’s no further details, other than what I posted, sorry.

Feel free to come over. I’m not there every Sunday, just one in three.

Geoff.

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Regards

WM

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Baard,

Hope this helps, from ‘Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the second world war – 1943’

DT647 coded ‘MP-P’ T/O 16.22 hrs Linton-on-Ouse, target – Berlin, lost without trace. The five british crew members are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. Crew – Capt B H Naess RNAF, Sgt M C Moody, Lt B Indseth RNAF, Sgt L Lamb, Sgt A V D Stinton, Sgt A R Saunders, Sgt P H B P Green.

For more info about the British crew members try http://www.cwgc.org/cwgcinternet/search.aspx

No doubt others will suggest other sources of information.

Geoff.