WW2/AR/CO2/1

Records of incidents, divided into "in" and "out" messages; "in " messages with columns as follows: incident no.; time; from; details; services required; "out" messages with columns as follows: incident no.; time; to; details; volume has index at the front. Local incidents as follows (note descriptions can be confused and contradictory, the following are for guidance only): - Stewartby: straffing with machine guns; one casualty; (23 Aug 1940); - Cranfield: straffing with machine guns; no casualties; (23 Aug 1940); - Eaton Socon: 2 unexploded bombs at Goodwick's Farm, Bushmead; (26 Aug 1940); - Caddington: bomb fell 300 yards from Zouche's Farm house; (26 Aug 1940); - Cranfield: 4 incendiary bombs fell at Crawley Road; (28 Aug 1940); - Biggleswade: 2 unexploded incendiary bombs; 28 Aug 1940); - Cranfield and Marston Moretaine: c.20 incendiary bombs dropped north of Cranfield airfield from Roxhill Farm, Marston Moretaine to Bourne End, Cranfield; (28 Aug 1940); - Cranfield, Hulcote and Brogborough: 20 200kg HE bombs dropped south of Cranfield airfield in a line from Moore Farm Hulcote to Brogborough Hill, most around Manor Farm, Brogborough; 2 unexploded; (28 Aug 1940); - Eaton Socon: incendiary bomb dropped in stubble field, Bushmead Road, 60 yards south of Council Cottages; (29 Aug 1940); - Dagnall [Buckinghamshire]: unexploded bomb in a field at Dagnallhall Farm, 400 yards south of Whipsnade Zoo; (29 Aug 1940); - Whipsnade: 9 50lb bombs, some unexploded, found (30 Aug 1940); - Caddington: 23 bombs dropped; Luton Road blocked by bomb blast; unexploded bomb in garden of Badger's Holt, Luton Road; (30 Aug 1940); - Luton: Markyate Road blocked by bomb blast at Farley Green; 8 bombs dropped, 4 unexploded; (30 Aug 1940); - Kensworth: 19 bombs dropped in two fields, 4 unexploded, one near Kensworth House; (30 Aug 1940); - Whipsnade: 18 bombs dropped; (30 Aug 1940); - Riseley: bomb dropped; (30 Aug 1940); - Chalgrave: HE bomb dropped in field at Brook Farm, Wingfield; one cow a casualty; (31 Aug 1940); - Chalgrave: 3 small bombs dropped in fields at the top of Lords' Hill and Bird's Farm, Wingfield; (31 Aug 1940); - Whipsnade: unexploded bomb in gardener's shed at Whipsnade Zoo; (31 Aug 1940); - Stagsden: 3 HE bombs dropped; (3 Sep 1940); - Bedford: 2 incendiary bombs dropped in fields at Hartopp's Farm, Putnoe Lane setting a rick on fire; 3 unexploded bombs east of Goldington Road and Barkers lane; (3 Sep 1940); - Renhold: 15 HE bombs dropped at Rogers Farm, Castle Mills, cattle killed, 1 unexploded bomb; (3 Sep 1940); - Renhold: c.98 incendiary bombs dropped 100 yards north of Salph End Farm; unexploded bomb suth of church; (3 Sep 1940); - Bolnhurst: unexploded bomb in Rectory Field, Church Farm with another discovered later; (3 Sep 1940); - Little Staughton: unexploded bomb near Kangaroo Inn; bonbs dropped and one unexploded bomb later found in Bush Field, Lodge Farm; (3 Sep 1940); - Ravensden: unexploded bomb at Grange Park Farm; (3 Sep 1940); - Wilden: bomb dropped at Crab Tree Field; (3 Sep 1940); - Higham Gobion: 2 HE bombs exploded in Pear Tree Field; unexploded bomb later found at Tongue Spinney; (5 Sep 1940): - Luton: 1 incendiary bomb dropped in field at Farley Bottom; (6 Sep 1940); - Hyde: 10 HE bombs dropped near Luton Hoo Railway station; (6 Sep 1940); - Keysoe: parachute flare dropped from RAF aircraft ignited thatch on a cottage; (12 Sep 1940); - Biddenham: unexploded bomb in spinney near Bedford Road; (15 Sep 1940); - Bromham: unexploded bomb at Little Park Farm; (15 Sep 1940); - Bromham/Biddenham: 11 He bombs in all dropped in the area; (15 Sep 1940); - Oakley: 2 bombs heard exploding near railway; (14 Sep 1940).

3 Sep 1939 - 30 Sep 1940

From: 1939 To: 1940

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Bushmead Goodwick's Farm, Caddington Zouche's Farm, Marston Moretaine Roxhill Farm, air force airfields, Holcot Moore Farm, Brogborough Manor Farm, Dagnall Dagnallhall Farm, zoos, cattle, Wingfield Brook Farm, Wingfield Bird's Farm, Putnoe Hartopp's Farm, Renhold Rogers Farm, Renhold Salph End Farm, Little Staughton Lodge Farm, Little Staughton Kangaroo, Ravensden Grange Park Farm, 9th built railways, Bromham Little Park Farm, air raids over UK, STEWARTBY, CRANFIELD, EATON SOCON, CADDINGTON, BIGGLESWADE, MARSTON MORETAINE, HOLCOT, BROGBOROUGH, STUDHAM, WHIPSNADE, LUTON, CADDINGTON, KENSWORTH, RISELEY, CHALGRAVE, STAGSDEN, Bushmead, Cranfield Bourne End, Caddington Luton Road, Luton Markyate Road, Farley Green, Kensworth House, Chalgrave Lord's Hill, Cranfield Crawley Road, Eaton Socon Bushmead Road, Wingfield, Whipsnade Zoo, BEDFORD, RENHOLD, BOLNHURST, LITTLE STAUGHTON, RAVENSDEN, WILDEN, HIGHAM GOBION, HYDE, KEYSOE, BIDDENHAM, BROMHAM, OAKLEY, Bedford Putnoe Lane, Bedford Goldington Road, Bedford Barkers Lane, Little Staughton fields, Bolnhurst fields, Wilden fields, Higham Gobion fields, Luton Hoo