Cornish town bombed date?
 

Hello,

I have acquired a piece of shrapnel with a letter stating its from a German bomb dropped on Morwenna, Cornwall during WW2.
Does anyone have dates that Morwenna was bombed, it can't have been hit that often.

Re: Cornish town bombed date?
 

I've searched my references but without any clues so I tried putting 'Morwenna' into MultiMap and it didn't find anything. 'Morwenna Cornwall' into Google similarly failed. So it must be a tiny place (single farm ?) if it exists at all. I certainly hadn't heard of it and I've lived in Cornwall for over 20 years.
One other possibility is that it was not a direct attack but a bomb jettisoned from an aircraft flying to attack (e.g.) Liverpool from a base in Brittany. One such aircraft was shot down in the Boconnoc area.
Sorry, that's the best I can do,
Ross

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Hi Ross,

Thanks for the response, I think its near Falmouth and i am sure that area had a few bombs at various times in the war. Even FW190 jabos bombed the region in 1942 so i think i will never pin it down to a single date.

The letter with the shrapnel states it hit her pillow whilst she was in bed..now thats a wake up call !

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hello Jon,
If you try St. Morwenna you will find a link to Bude in North Cornwall.
Cleave Air station is near and was bombed on 26th August 1940 by 2 Ju88's damaging two Wallace a/c and injuring a civilian. A 1100 lb bomb hit on 2nd Octoberbut failed to explode.

Alex

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If she was in bed, it is unlikely it was a Jabo attack as they were conducted by day. I have a listing of all such attacks but Morwenna does not figure

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Chris

You are assuming she wasn't in bed during the day!!

Cheers
Brian

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Hi
I could be wrong, but morwenna I think is/was near the Lizard, ( I seem to recall the name from memory, when I was searching the cornish war diaries )

I gave my notes away so I can't check.

However surely both Lizard or Bude are beyond the range of the 190 jabo attacks ?
cheers
Jerry