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Description: | Undated but contemporary ts letter (5pp) from a lady living in Leyton, East London to an office colleague working in the Admiralty giving details of what she had heard herself and since learnt from others about the casualties and damage to property caused by the Zeppelin raid on Leyton and Leytonstone on the night of 17 August 1915, and describing her reaction to the raid - '... it absolutely knocks one up to think of the terrible time we had ...' The attack, by the Zeppelin L10, was the first occasion on which a German naval airship bombed London, causing extensive damage to property in Leyton and killing 10 civilians and injuring 48 others.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1999-04 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | airship German Air Force Zeppelin L10 | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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