Local News Stories during WW2

Read about the stories that made the local newspapers during World War 2.

Unexploded Bomb on Railway - September 1940

Unexploded Bomb on Railway Line

Danger coolly tackled by staff In the South of England an unexploded bomb fell a short distance from a ...
Gun Crew - September 1940

Gun Crew who Shot down three Dornier bombers

This is the anti-aircraft gun crew who brought down three Dornier 17 bombers shortly after mid-day on Sunday last.  ...
Palin - Prisoner of War

Lance Corporal E. A. Palin

Reported in the Bromley & District Times, 6th September 1940. Prisoner of War Mrs G. L. Plain, 61 Newbury ...

Harvesters in a Raid

Reported in the Bromley & District Times, 6th September 1940 Mr. E. S. Oak-Rhind writes to The Times:- Somewhere ...

Second-Lieutenant Terence Thorpe-Woods

As reported in the Bromley & District Times on 6th September 1940, another soldier is reported as a Prisoner of ...

County of the Kent Red Cross

As reported in the Bromley & District Times in September 1940 Travel Vouchers for Relatives Lady Hohler, ...