What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Near here, at Tide Mills, driver Pattenden was killed as a result of the first ever train attack in World War II. Charles Henry Pattenden 25.12.1880-3.7.1940
Charles Henry Pattenden was a train driver killed during the first recorded train attack in World War II, occurring near Tide Mills; his death marks an important though tragic moment in the early conduct of warfare on British soil.
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