From the Daily Sketch, Monday June 3rd, 1940.
One man died and another was seriously injured when sentries fired on a car that did not stop on the main road near Stapleford Abbotts. The dead man, the driver of the car was Joseph Henry Vaughan, aged 20 years, of Whitman House, Bethnal Green, E. His companion is in hospital.
Lights were flashed to signal the car to stop on Saturday night, but it drove on, and a sentry had to jump clear to avoid being run down.
The two sentries fired and the car was topped by one of the uninjured passengers.
At and Inquest held at Romford a verdict of justifiable homicide was returned.
[No further information was given in the newspapers concerning this incident. It is probable that the incident occurred near Stapleford Airfield.]