Barely two weeks after the horrors of D-Day had played out across the Channel, an unimaginable tragedy befell troops nervously waiting to be deployed to Normandy – this time on British soil. A V1 Doodlebug flying bomb landed on the Newlands Stud between Lenham and Charing Heath, where members of the 6 Guards Tank Brigade’s Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) Workshop were billeted in Nissen huts. The explosion on June 24, 1944, killed 52 Craftsmen and other ranks. Eighty other servicemen were injured. Today, each of the fallen has his own immaculately kept grave in a spot in the c…
