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Description: | This souvenir paper handkerchief was printed to commemorate the victims of a German air raid on London, 13 June 1917. This, the first daylight raid on London of the First World War, involved 17 Gotha biplanes flying in tight formation over east London.
The raid killed 97 civilians including 18 children who died when a bomb destroyed Upper North Street School, Poplar. Most of the school victims were only five years old. Street sellers would have sold handkerchiefs such as this to the crowds lining the route of the children's funeral procession to All Saints Church, Poplar. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Museum of London | Subjects: | London at War Home and Family | Temporal: | 1917 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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