WW2 Heinkel HE111 crash site (Sandhurst/Rolvenden) Traditional Cache
WW2 Heinkel HE111 crash site (Sandhurst/Rolvenden)
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This cache is a 35mm film pot placed on the south side of the road approximately 3ft (1m) above ground level - or perhaps 6ft (1.8m), depending on your point of view. Sorry, I don't think that it will be reachable by wheelchair cachers.
This cache marks the spot near to where a German Heinkel HE111 crash-landed during WW2.
The story goes that the local boys got to the plane before the Police and Army, and they managed to 'collect' several souvenirs.
One souvenir was the German MG15 machine gun.
Another souvenir was the rail on which the German MG15 machine gun was mounted.
Naturally, the next day the Police visited all of the local properties in the area asking whether anyone knew anything about the missing items from the Heinkel HE111.
Of course, none of the local boys knew anything!
In fact, none of them had even been there - so how could they?
The Police left, but not before saying how series it was to take equipment from crashed planes, and if anyone heard anything about 'recovered' equipment then they must tell the Police immediately.
The local boys, being a close-knit bunch, remained not never knowing nuffink, and never saying nuffink to anyone - until very recently when one of them met me.
The German MG15 machine gun, that nobody knew nuffink about, was handed in many years ago - or so I am told - but not before a picture was taken of it.
See the attached.
(Hmm? I wonder whether the picture is deliberately blurred so as to make it look as if it was taken many years ago, rather than last week?)
And the gun rail on which it was mounted?
Well, if anyone knew anything, which they still don't, the rail may be being stored locally - perhaps in the garage of one of the 'finders'.
But, Old Boys being Old Boys, nobody still don't know nuffink about which garage that might be!
Time to ply the Old Boys down the local pub with more local beer, perhaps?
If you do, please let me know what you find out.
Internet search:
3/KG53 Heinkel He111H-2 [5481] A1+GL which crashed at Sandhurst, Kent 15/9/40.
I have yet to establish whether this is the HE111.
STOP PRESS:
This appears to be a different plane crash to the one on 15/9/40.
Additional Hints
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