Thank you Peter, I have found some war time accounts of this incident:
Except from Des Sheed's war memoirs:
"On September 11th, a Heinkel 111 was hit by AA fire over London and lost an engine; it was attacked by three hurricanes and forced to land in the village. The crew tried to set fire to it; Two crewmembers were captured unhurt and two were wounded. The wings were taken off the plane and the body was loaded onto a Queen Mary trailer (60 feet long). It was taken further up the village but they realised it was too wide for the main road. It was then parked outside the Half Moon Pub for a few days. I cycled down one morning and stood gazing at it and the solder guarding it said “Look after it while I go and have a cup of tea.” I was speechless."
Source:
Des Sheed's War Memoirs
Also
Page 18 & 19 of 47:
Wednesday 11 September, 1940
One Canadian pilot, Flying Officer Yuille, attacked a lone Heinkel-111 piloted by Corporal Steineck of Bomber Group 1. According to his own after-action report, Yuille made a number of attacks on the Heinkel and seems to have worried it like a terrier with a rat, pursuing the bomber down and blazing away at it as it lost altitude. He was joined by two other Hurricanes, one of which was flown by Sergeant Scott of 222 Squadron. Scott charged headlong into the attack, completely oblivious of any other British fighters nearby; Yuille complained later of getting shoved out of the way by Scott while he lined up to make his own attack. In this fashion they pursued the hapless bomber down over Leigh, low over the church and virtually grazing the roof of Upper Kennards, until it made a crash landing behind Old Barn. Corporal Steineck managed to put the plane down more or less intact, sliding between two rows of poles which had been put up to prevent glider landings, and finally the Heinkel came to a stop, riddled with bullet holes and with three of the live crew injured.
Several people remember seeing the bomber go over, including a man who was part of a party picking hops in a field near Meopham Bank. “We saw it coming in,” he recalls, “and we knew it was going to crash. We ran straight across the fields to get to it.” The duty Home Guard had also seen the plane come in and had run along the railway line, but were ultimately beaten to the scene by some soldiers who had come along the road from the Hildenborough direction, arriving in time to receive the surrender of Corporal Steineck who had walked across the fields towards Meopham Bank.
Most of the village seems to have gone out to see the plane, and by the time Sir Eric Macfadyen arrived home from London his farm appeared to have suffered an invasion. “I arrived home yesterday to find an enemy bomber,” he wrote in his diary “a Heinkel-111, dividing barley corn meadow from the Old Barn big field. It had been driven down by four Spitfires, and had taken the ground in the big field... Of the crew of five, three were slightly hurt. ...This happened about 3.45 pm. By six o’clock when I got home, several hundred sightseers had collected. A man was at the gate into the road with a hat, collecting for the Spitfire Fund.” A woman who remembers being taken to see the wreck as a small girl recalls that after it was removed from Sir Eric’s field it was kept, minus its wings, on show for some time in the car park of the Half Moon pub in Hildenborough. She also remembers vividly seeing a blue and white badge on the side of the aircraft, which she was astonished to learn after the war was the insignia of BMW.
Source:
Leigh atWar.pdf
Over on the
Kent History Forum the location has been positively identified as being outside the Half Moon Pub in Hildenborough. The building in the front of the Heinkel is the building across the road from the pub.