Kenneth Biggs was at an ammunition depot in Savernake Plateau when ammunition being loaded from lorries into railway trucks caught fire which destroyed a lorry and railway wagons almost immediately.
On 2 January 1946, he was at an ammunition depot in Savernake Forest when ammunition being loaded from lorries into railway trucks caught fire. 
Savernake Forest stands on a Cretaceous chalk plateau between Marlborough and Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England. 
