AIRSHIP RAIDS
LIST OF THE ATTACKS ON ENGLAND.. Following is a list of the German air- [ ship raids on Britain, from the heginl ning of the Avar up to the raid of last Saturdav, and of the districts raided : i • ' " ■ • : :wis.- -. • ■ ..»■■"■.:;.'■-," i January 19.—Yarmouth and ' Icing's ! i»ynn. >■ ... , ■■ April 14.—Biyth and Tyneside. ' April 16. —Lowestoft,. Ipswich, and Bury St. Edmunds. May 10. : —Southendi. Ma vi 17.-—Ramsgate.' ',' May 27.—'Southed'd. - May 31.—•Outlying districts of London. June 4. : —East and South-east Coasts. June 6.—East Coast. June 16.—North-east Coast. Aiigust 9.—East Coast.'. . ' ' August 12.—East Coast. August 17.—Eastern Counties. September 7:-7-Eastern Counties. September'B.—Eastern Counties and London district. ' , ; September 11.'—-East Coast. ' /. September 12.—Eagt Coast.' September 13.—East C.oast': 'Octb'ber 13.—-Eastern Counties and Loricton area. '■ ' .. 1916. January 31.—'Midland Counties. , .March s.—Yorkshire and'" seven other Counties. . \ . :(First airship, brought down over Britain.}, March 31.—-Eastern Comities ' and <North-east Coast. - April I.—North-east Coast; April 2. —Coast of; Scotland and North and South-east Counties of England. April s.—East 'Coast. April 6.— ; North-east Coast.; April 25.—^'Norfolk and; Essex and Kent.— \ : >/i' •''"'' - l i May of ; . England and south'-east of iS'cotland. July .29.—-Yorkshire and Eiricolns'hire.! j August I.—Eastern and . Southern ; August 9.—-.East Coast of England .and Coast. a. 'August and South-east Coast: August 26.—London district.".. September 2. district. (Seoond airship bro;uglit down oyer.. ■Britain.) ' . " - September 23.—E'as'tern. and Southeastern Counties. (Third and fourth airships brought down.)
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Nelson Evening Mail, 26 September 1916, Page 5
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