Wimbledon 1944 and the V1 Flying Bombs from an unpublished WW2 diary Vera Richardson – WW2 Home Front Diaries This is how Vera Richardson records the first notice of V1 Flying Bombs in her Wimbledon 1944 diary Vera Richardson – WW2 Home Front Diaries Vera Richardson (b. 1907/8) lived with her mother and father at “New Holme”, 218 Coombe Road, Wimbledon throughout the war.