Just been trying to find out a bit more about that crashed Spitfire at Kemsing, the only reference I can find is one that made a safe crashed landing in 1941 with the only casualty being a civilian firefighter who had run all the way to the crash scene and then collapsed and died (presumably heart attack) when he got there.
Funny little note about Kemsing:
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The American aviator, John Moisant, the first pilot to fly from Paris to London, and the first to cross the channel with a passenger, crashed at Kemsing in 1910. Perhaps this is not such a great distinction as Moisant crashed with great regularity across all of North Kent.
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Heh...looking back at it, I was born within ten miles of Biggin Hill. I honestly didn't realise that it was
that close. Always thought of it more west than it actually is.