The Crash Landing Of A German Heinkel 115 Bomber At Windyhead Farm New Aberdour

A Memory of New Aberdour.

`BUCHAN`S OWN BATTLE OF BRITAIN DAY`
THE TRUE STORY OF THE CRASH-LANDING OF A GERMAN HEINKEL 115 BOMBER PLANE ON AN ABERDEENSHIRE FARM DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND THE SURRENDERING OF THE AIRMEN TO YOUNG KITCHEN-MAID AGNES MARR WHO WAS ONLY 2O YEARS OLD.
(As told by Denis G Beedie)
"Moonlight mellowed that warped scene. Stavanger Aerodrome beamed in it, and on runways, cockpits stood out like luminous dials. One cockpit moved.....a Heinkel 115 was lifting it`s nose up in the diluted darkness towards North-East Scotland" .................

So ran the heading in the Aberdeen `Press and Journal` of February 13th. 1959, in a story describing the crash-landing of a German Bomber plane on a north-east of Scotland farm 19 years earlier during the Battle of Britain, 1940.

The farm was `Windyhead`, situated on a hilly plateau in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, just outside the ancient village of New Aberdour where St. Columba and St. Drostan his companion first landed when they brought the Gospel to the North-East shoulder of Scotland 1400 years earlier, and indeed the very village where St. Drostan, that great Evangel-Saint was buried in the 6th. Century.
The farmer, my father, James (Jimmy) Beedie was sitting, relaxing at home with his cousin Donald Watson when they heard the strange, roaring sound of an aircraft engine as it passed overhead
They rushed to the door, but from the dreich, damp, foggy sky above them, they heard no more. "It must have passed over," said Jimmy to his cousin, so back inside they went, to continue their relaxation over a coffee.

Jimmy`s housekeeper, Agnes Kindness Marr had been down in the village visiting her mother, Mary, and was on her way back to the farm when she too heard the rasping sound of the Heinkel Bomber in the stillness of the night.

This was Sunday evening, September 15th 1940, two hours before midnight, and that day BBC Radio had reported that the R.A.F. had shot down 185 Luftwaffe planes over London.

Jimmy and Donald had been listening to the BBC report on their Marconi Radio unaware that before the night was over they too would be caught up in their own `Battle of Britain experience` at the farm.

The Bomber, a Heinkel 115 8L+GH Seaplane with 2 floats, like torpedoes, had set off from Stavanger in Nazi-Occupied Norway, across the North Sea from north-east Scotland, and had in it`s belly, high explosive bombs and aerial depth-charges and was on it`s maiden voyage. It`s mission was to bomb and depth-charge Moray Firth shipping. The Pilot, peering out of his cockpit window and trying to make sense of where he was, had because of sea-fog, crossed the shoreline unknowingly, and was unaware that he was now over Scottish farm-land........

TO READ THIS AMAZING STORY IN IT`S ENTIRETY GO TO
www.torahtreasuretrove.com Web-Page `ONE BRAVE LADY` and hear this New Aberdour lass`s amazing story as told to her son by Agnes herself!!!

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