Meanings of Military Service 1914 - zeppelin-raids

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Queen Alexandra Visits the Wounded in the Hospital

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Postcard of Queen Alexandra's visit to The Royal London.

Dated September 4th 1914 the postcard shows the large crowd gathered outside the front of The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel to see Queen Alexandra as she visited the wounded soldiers at the hospital. The back of this picture postcard reads: 'Air raid, all safe, very close, just over us, no damage to L.H.'

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Kaisers Enemies

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'Kaisers Enemies'.

Pictures from a newspaper with the description 'The Kaisers Enemies (some of the little victims of the air raid, last week, at the London Hospital, where they were visited by H M the King)' The picture shows some of the young victims of the air raid over London. These children became known as 'Bombed Babies'.

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London

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1917

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Aerial Photo Daylight Raid

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Aerial Photo of the Daylight Raid.

This image is a copy of the original photo which is now missing. While the photograph is not extremely clear, it does highlight the areas that were hit during the daylight raid on 7 July 1917. St Bartholomew'۪s Hospital can be seen to suffer a direct hit.

Image Courtesy of St Bartholomew's Hospital Archives.

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London

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Picture of the Bombed Babies

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Bombed Babies

A newspaper cutting from the Daily Mirror which began a campaign for toys for the young victims affected by the air raid in East London. This photograph shows the toys being distributed to children in the London Hospital.

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London

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1917

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Bombed Babies

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'Bombed Babies' Newspaper Article.

The article describes how readers of the paper had kindly donated toys to the young victims of the air raids. It tells of how the children responded to their toys and how the gifts had helped to alleviate their 'bomb-shock'.

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London

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Bringing up the Reinforcements at the London hospital 2

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Bringing up the Reinforcements 2.

The picture shows the babies born during the war. The inscription on the back reads: 'This is what I promised you. What do you think of it? Nurse Ponting had an operation for appendicitis last Monday she is going on very nicely the last time I heard. Did not see anything of the Zepps last night, but head 4 bangs which I put down to bombs where they were I do not know. From G. Walker.'

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London

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1915

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Letter from General Sir Neville Lyttelton to Katherine Lyttelton

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Transcript-Lyttelton.pdf

Letter from General Sir Neville Lyttelton to his wife Katherine Lyttelton, 25th September 1916.

The letter from Neville Lyttelton describes a Zeppelin raid over London. The second paragraph of the letter reads: 'The servants heard the row on the Zeppelin night, bombs and guns Lizzie says that Brixton and Kennington got rather heavily bombed.' Over 50 bombing raids were made by airships on England during the war.

Click on the link above to download the transcribed letter. PDF's may take a while to download depending on the speed of your internet connection.

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