Fife bomb drop

Dundee reader John Taylor telephoned to say: “I was interested in the recent article about the bomb dropping at Melville Lodges.

“When I was a young man and working at Parbroath Farm, near Cupar, a bomb also fell there on that same night. Do any readers know if that was connected to the same plane? It landed in the bottom edge of a field and no one was injured.

“I’m 80 now but I clearly remember that night.”

On the same topic, I have heard from Robert Richmond of Newport who says: “With regard to the Monimail bomb, my mother (who is now 96) remembers bombs falling at Hospital Mill Wood, half a mile SW of Springfield village church around 1940.

“She recalls going to see the craters left by the blast a few days later. She says that they quickly filled up with water and are still visible today in the form of a marshy pond in dense woodland. There is certainly no sign of a pond at that location on OS maps up to 1940.”

Our original correspondent, Raymond Ferguson of Brechin has been back in touch to say: “Many thanks to Archie Goodhall and Archibald Lawrie for commenting on my previous message. Does Archie have an exact date for the Monimail bomb?

“To fill in some details, my wife’s father, David Traill, was a gardener at Melville House before being conscripted into the Army. She also thinks he may have worked at Pathcondie Farm earlier on. A name often mentioned by him.”