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This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Dianne Burtrand of Chelmsford Library on behalf of Mr Reeve and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.

My brother and I were larking about in a locked car at Brentwood Station when a Dorner dropped bombs which bounced on the road by the ‘Essex Arms’ pub.
The plane was so low that it had to climb to get over the pub and one bomb dropped about five yards from us and bounced down to the railway station, killing a man.
In 1940 ‘sticker bombs’ were dropped on the railway line on the London side and some are still there in the high embankments just past Brentwood.

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