In the morning of Monday 21st December 1942, a single German fighter fired its machine guns as it flew low across St Leonards. Bullets hit Marline Avenue, Sedlescombe Road North, , Madeira Drive, St Helen’s Road, Bexhill Road, Bulverhythe Road. At 140 Sedlescombe Road North, 57 year old Beatrice Walker was killed by this gunfire.
During the morning of 7th December 1943, a German plane flew over the Brede parish and fired its machine guns at ‘targets’ across the area. At Brede Hill, Brede, Violet Lewry was with her daughter on the way to catch a bus. Hearing the plane, she attempted to take cover in a shed, but the … Read more
During the morning of 7th December 1943, a German plane flew over the Westfield parish and fired its machine guns at cottages across the area. At Plumtree Cottages in Spray Lane, Joan Beeching, aged 28 was in her kitchen. She was hit several times by bullets and died later that day at Buchanan Hospital. Her … Read more
At around twenty past one on Saturday 17th October, two Focke Wulf 190 fighters dropped high explosive bombs across St Leonards. At 43 Pevensey Road, two people were killed when the building was demolished. Alice Cooper, aged 71 was killed immediately, and Edith Wilmshurst, aged 65, died the next day at Buchanan Hospital. St Columbia’s … Read more
In the afternoon of Thursday 24th September 1942, seven German fighter bombers with a fighter escort dropped a large number of high explosive bombs across St Leonards. As they flew across the town they also fired their machine guns indiscriminately. The bombs struck Warrior Square, West Hill Road, Quarry Hill and De Cham Road. At … Read more
In the afternoon of Thursday 24th September 1942, seven German fighter bombers with a fighter escort dropped a large number of high explosive bombs across St Leonards. As they flew across the town they also fired their machine guns indiscriminately. The bombs struck Warrior Square, West Hill Road, Quarry Hill and De Cham Road. Warrior … Read more
In the afternoon of Thursday 24th September 1942, seven German fighter bombers with a fighter escort dropped a large number of high explosive bombs across St Leonards. As they flew across the town they also fired their machine guns indiscriminately. The bombs struck Warrior Square, West Hill Road, Quarry Hill and De Cham Road. Warrior … Read more
In the afternoon of Thursday 24th September 1942, seven German fighter bombers with a fighter escort dropped a large number of high explosive bombs across St Leonards. As they flew across the town they also fired their machine guns indiscriminately. The bombs struck Warrior Square, West Hill Road, Quarry Hill and De Cham Road. At … Read more
In the afternoon of Thursday 24th September 1942, seven German fighter bombers with a fighter escort dropped a large number of high explosive bombs across St Leonards. As they flew across the town they also fired their machine guns indiscriminately. The bombs struck Warrior Square, West Hill Road, Quarry Hill and De Cham Road. The … Read more
On Sunday 17th May 1942 four Messerschmitt 109s did a ‘tip and run’ raid run on Hastings. The attackers fired their machine guns indiscriminately as they swept across town, dropped their bombs and then fled back to their base across the Channel. The four high explosive bombs dropped that day hit Falaise Road, Havelock Road … Read more