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Monthly Archives: October 2014

Memorabilia

Shell shrapnel

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Naval shrapnel picked up by the donor’s grandfather in Gladstone Road, Scarborough while it was still almost too hot to handle.

Images courtesy IWM, catalogue number EPH 10244

 

Gladstone Road
Scarborough casualties, Shelled locations

Postman Beal

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IWM Q 53476

The flower-decked hearse of Postman Beal who was killed in the German naval bombardment of Scarborough in December 1914.

© IWM (Q 53476)

Scarborough casualties, The casualties

Driver Bennett

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IWM Q 53461

Horse-drawn carriages in Scarborough for the funeral of Driver Bennett, Royal Field Artillery, a victim of the raid on Scarborough by vessels of the 1st Scouting Group of the German High Seas Fleet, commanded by Admiral Franz von Hipper, on 16 December 1914.

Image courtesy © IWM (Q 53461)

Royal Field Artillery
Scarborough casualties, Shelled locations

The Bennett family

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IWM Q 53477

The remains of a house in Scarborough where five members of the Bennett family were killed as a result of the raid on Scarborough by vessels of the 1st Scouting Group of the German High Seas Fleet, commanded by Admiral Franz von Hipper, on 16 December 1915.

Image courtesy © IWM (Q 53477)

IWM Q 53484
Image courtesy © IWM (Q 53484)
IWM Q 53463
Image © IWM (Q 53463)

Scarborough casualties

Bertha MacIntyre

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John Shields Ryalls
John Shields Ryalls

John Shields Ryalls, aged 14 months, one of the youngest victims of the bombardment, in the arms of Miss Bertha MacIntyre, who was killed at the same time.

Image courtesy © IWM (Q 53464)

Scarborough casualties

John Shields Ryalls

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John Shields Ryalls
John Shields Ryalls

John Shields Ryalls, aged 14 months, one of the youngest victims of the bombardment, in the arms of Miss Bertha MacIntyre, who was killed at the same time.

Image courtesy © IWM (Q 53464)

Hartlepool, Video

The bombardment of Hartlepool

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