1940 Ace Pilot Killed On Purley School Playing Field
A Memory of Coulsdon.
In September 1940 I lived in Meadway and witnessed a Hurricane fighter crash in the Purley Boys Grammar School playing field. The pilot, an Ace pilot of the Battle of Britain was known as Caesar and he died that day and I went up to view the site. At the time I was attending the Purley Girls Grammar School. We moved to Coulsdon in 1938 and I was a patrol leader in the Coulsdon Girl Guides. I have memories of collecting wool to knit up socks for the soldiers.
I left Coulsdon in 1942 when my father a railwayman was moved to Exeter.
Maureen Lamb (née Purton)
Tel:015396 20553
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