The final bomb landed in Hither Green, south-east London, killing 15 people and destroying homes. The attack was carried out by a German Zeppelin at the height of World War One, having failed in ...
On the wooden backing board is written, in black ink, 'SPLINTER OF BOMB / PICKED UP ON FORE BRIDGE / OF H.M.A.S. "SYDNEY" AFTER ENGAGEMENT / OF H.M.A.S. SYDNEY, AND H.M.S. DUBLIN, WITH / GERMAN ...
BEN ROBINSON:But the last ever attempt to bomb Britain by a zeppelin was here, over the Norfolk coast, and it's fitting that this is where the aerial war ended. BEN ROBINSON:'On 5th August 1918 ...
One of the pilots, Lt. William Leffe Robinson managed to score a direct hit and the Zeppelin came down in a spectacular fireball near the village of Cuffley in Hertfordshire. For bringing down the ...