Ordnance Street, Chatham
December 1940 · Medway, Kent
View this record on the map →- Date
- December 1940
- Record type
- Historic bombing site
- Bomb type
- parachute-mine
- Casualties
- 24
- Location
- Medway, Kent
- Position accuracy
- Confirmed event, street-derived point
What happened
Twenty-four people were killed when parachute mines fell on Ordnance Street, destroying homes including that of the Thorn family, who died together.
Also worth knowing
Survivor Steve Foy, ten years old at the time, campaigned for years for a permanent memorial; a plaque naming the dead was unveiled in 2014 at the spot where the second mine came down. The source gives the month but not the day, so no exact date is asserted.