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- EDNA HOCKING
- Location of story:听
- ST ERTH, CORNWALL
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A7069241
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- 18 November 2005
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in 1941/42 I lived on Tregethas Farm, St Erth. At 10.30 one night we heard the collision of two planes. Two Spitfires had crashed and fallen into the field of the next farm calle Frythens. I've no idea how this crash occurred. Both pilots were killed and their bodies put in the barn overnight. It was awful and the police were out in the dark looking for parts of the bodies.
The next day a Lancaster Bomber dropped on one of the hedges of our field. I've no idea how this happened either, fortunately the pilot wasn't killed. I remember they had a pigeon on board in case they had to send a message back to base.
We had Prison of War Camps at St Erth with Italians and Germans and they worked on the farms around. One of them is still here, he never went back or married. he's called John the German. All the POWs were very nice, Rudi Mott was one of them, he was German. He bought a farm with daffodils and chickens and lives at Crowan, Praze he turned the old railway station into a bungalow.
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