Which English cities were bombed during WWI and what were the casualties?

Answer 1

JANUARY 19th

On this day in history in 1915, German zeppelins bombed Britain.
Zeppelins were rigid cylindrical airships with a trussed covered skeleton of aluminium, containing lighter than air hydrogen gas, powered by numerous engines and guided by rudders. They were designed by the dastardly Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, a German army officer.

The German army had a stockpile of zeppelins ready when the First World War broke out. They launched the first just two days after invading Belgium but it never left German territory, having to make a forced landing at Cologne. The zeppelins had a high bomb carrying capacity but were prone to accident and were vulnerable to gunfire when flying low. After the launch of a wave of zeppelins over France, two were shot down and one was captured.

In 1915, the Kaiser ordered a raid over Britain. On the night of 19th January, the first ever bombing of civilians took place. From a raiding party of five, three returning with engine trouble, two zeppelins dropped twelve tons of high explosive bombs and incendiary devices on Great Yarmouth, Sheringham and Kings Lynn. Four people were killed, sixteen injured and damage was caused worth £7,500 (nearly a million pounds in today’s money). The inhabitants were taken by surprise. A policeman reported that there was a large cigar shaped object in the sky and a noise like a car engine. Two farm workers stated that they saw a shape in the sky travelling at a great pace but nobody saw the bombs fall. A plaque at a house in Great Yarmouth [St Peters Plain, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk NR30 2LS] marks the spot where the first bomb dropped.

The Germans carried on bombing but with little success. Searchlights were given to the police so that the airships could be illuminated and shot at. One zeppelin found itself the target of bombing. First Sub-Lieutenant R A J Warneford of the Royal Naval Air Service took a Morane Parasol over a zeppelin and dropping six twenty-pounders set fire to it and destroyed it. The Germans launched 88 zeppelins in all, 65 were lost in action and the remainder were scuppered by the German army, after they had surrendered. Germany was forbidden the use of zeppelins by the Treaty of Versailles 1919, a prohibition that they ignored. They used zeppelins for civilian air travel until 1936 when the zeppelin Hindenburg, when landing in New Jersey after a transatlantic flight, spectacularly crashed and burst into flames at the airport, killing all on board.

Answer 2

The first ever aerial bombardment of civilians was on January 19, 1915, in which two German Zeppelins dropped 24 fifty-kilogram high-explosive bombs and ineffective three-kilogram incendiaries on the English towns of Great Yarmouth, Sheringham, King's Lynn, and the surrounding villages. In all, four people were killed, sixteen injured, and monetary damage was estimated at £7,740, although the public and media reaction were out of proportion to the death toll.

London was accidentally bombed in May, and, in July 1916, the Kaiser allowed directed raids against urban centres. There were 23 airship raids in 1916 in which 125 tons of ordnance were dropped, killing 293 people and injuring 691. Gradually British air defences improved. In 1917 and 1918 there were only eleven Zeppelin raids against England, and the final raid occurred on August 5, 1918, which resulted in the death of KK Peter Strasser, commander of the German Naval Airship Department. By the end of the war, 51 raids had been undertaken, in which 5,806 bombs were dropped, killing 557 people and injuring 1,358. It has been argued that the raids were effective far beyond material damage in diverting and hampering wartime production, and diverting twelve squadrons and over 10,000 men to air defences.

Answer 3

The town (technically not a city) of Hartlepool was bombed by Zepplins on 3 occasions - for details see link. It had previously been bomabrded from the sea by German warships, resulting in the first death of a soldier, by enemy action, on British soil, since the Napoleonic Wars.

Answer 4

the respond on your question is an emphatic NO! Hitler grew to become into no longer helpful. The Luftwaffe did a terrible interest oftentimes in the time of the blitz/conflict of B. at the same time as Hitler ordered civilian objectives to be hit, he additionally had many militia objectives. His purpose of bombing civilians grew to become into often, an attempt to break the want and spirit of the British and lead them to provide up. In that regard, it grew to become right into a dark failure. The British, as lead via Churchhill, certainly grew to become extra defiant and desperate as simply by it. The civilians suffered very much from the bombing, yet no longer interior the way that should have helped Hitler. It additionally had little to no result on British militia potential, which grew to become into the actual possibility. Had Hitler centred extra on that, it ought to have ended in triumphing, so it grew to become right into a failure. The assaults against militia objectives weren't lots extra helpful. The British had created distinctive decoy/dummy tanks, planes, airfields, ammo and gasoline depots, and so on... The Germans spent weeks bombing fake objectives into oblivion. constructive, they have been given actual ones too, yet they overassessed the wear and tear hence and did no longer get everywhere close to the outcomes they have been hoping for. hence, the suited attack via the German airforce failed. The Brits have been right down to in straightforward terms 4 hundred fighters at one ingredient and had they been defeated interior the air, the Germans could have landed the 80,000 troops for operation Sea Lion and then it could have been all, yet over.

Answer 5

I know that in May of 1915 ( I think) London was bombed. As far as English Cities that is all I know sorry I can't be of more help.