Kingsclere, Market Place c.1960
Photo ref:
K140073

More about this scene
There are grey and red brick buildings here. The cottages straight ahead were built in the 1860s. On the left is the Crown Inn, where a gruesome event took place in 1944. US Army units were based around here, and ten US soldiers walked into the Crown and got drunk. Two US military police asked them for their passes. When they failed to produce these, the ten men stormed back to camp, helping themselves to rifles. On returning to the Crown they checked that the policemen were still inside and then opened fire, killing them and Mrs Napper, the landlord's wife. Nine of the soldiers were charged with murder and given life imprisonment. The tenth was discharged from the Army and given ten years hard labour.
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