Question for Guests to this Site .

[Monica Mary]

Hello Merlin,sorry to have you confused,hope you can get to the bottom of it.
All i can remember is the dead cow and as we lived in Northfield at the time can remember walking across the road and going down London road into a field somewhereand going into a field (no houses built then).
Cliff has a better memory than me with some of the fantastic things he has reminded me of over the the last two or three years especially of old school days in T.G.S now Sir William Romney School.
Thank goodness for the internet,I wish some of our other old school friends from Tetbury would have a go.they would have better memories than me also,having being away from Tetbury 48 years now,will always be glad my son talked me into using a computer never thought I would, Best wishes Monica Mary..

[cliff]

Hi Merlin, ( any other readers ?)
Glad to see some interest in crashed plane/s . For myself only one is positive in my recollections. It was the one in the field on the left just beyond Coronation Road. There were no further houses. To the left were open fields to Hampton Road/Avening Tetbury Road, Fields to the right stretching to London Road, ( site of cow death ) Water Works tower was straight ahead, is it still there ? Council housing was built in this area shortly after the War ended.
Still no positive answer to my query, look forward to any input.
Cliff B.

[merlin]

Hi Cliff/ Monica Mary,

I think the smoke has cleared, not three crashes but two, the cow seems to be the clincher.

I had read a reference to a German fighter crashing near Tetbury but I now think this is a mistaken description of the crash you remember.

Firstly, I don't think German fighters had the range to reach this far west and secondly when I started to ask locally the cow story emerged over and over again.

The crashed German aircraft was most certainly a bomber, possibly after one of the many airfields in and around this area at the time. But more likely one trying to escape our own fighters after trying to attack Bristol or the Docks at Avonmouth.

Damaged it dropped it's bomb(s) to lighten the load hence the dead cow, but still crashed .

The spitfire you remember was a separate incident in Fog as detailed in an earlier reply.

[cliff]

Hi Merlin,
Still confused about he various plane crashes. Vague recollection of Beverston/Babdown Spitfire ?? Certainly no connection of bombs and crashed plane off Coronation Road until some one comes up with anything concrete, Wilts & Gloucester Standard perhaps ?? Maybe not ,due to wartime reporting restrictions. Have you any idea where Police documents, books etc. for this period are held ?? are they accessible ?? Until the advent of computers, I feel sure that Gloucestershire Police like other Forces maintained a G.O.B. ( General Occurrence Book )in which happenings were recorded at or close to the event. Very often in copperplate handwriting. Are there any such books that are available in the Police Museum. I know I appear in one book, having found a wallet that belonged to Colonel MORRISON-BELL no less. With much trepedation I was called out in front of the assembled Boys Cof E school, where he presented me with a full half-crown for being honest. Inspired, together with a schoolmate
pushed a ladies cycle with a flat tyre from Doughton to the Police Station, hoping for a reward. Sadly, later advised it had been reported stolen by a WAAF, having punctured on her way back to Camp.
I really should be getting all of this rubbish recorded, a book, " Childrens War In Tetbury " Who knows !
Cliff B.

[cliff]

Any one out there
Would appear that the update was more of a requiem than an exhortation.
Cliff B.