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The Bombardment of Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth by the Germans, 25th April 1916. Lowestoft: Lowestoft War Memorial Museum. ISBN 978-0-9571769-2-8. Marder, Arthur J. (1965). From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904–1919: The War Years to the eve of Jutland: 1914–1916. Vol. II. London: Oxford University Press.
The Raid on Yarmouth, on 3 November 1914, was an attack by the Imperial German Navy on the British North Sea port and town of Great Yarmouth.German shells only landed on the beach causing little damage to the town, after German ships laying mines offshore were interrupted by British destroyers.
It opened on 28 May 1915, originally as a Royal Naval Air Station for RNAS Great Yarmouth tasked with defending against Zeppelin raids. The airfield covered a 908-acre (3.67 km 2 ) site, including 30 acres (120,000 m 2 ) of buildings – making it the largest First World War airfield in Britain.
The East Anglian coast from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, to Southwold, Suffolk; The Suffolk coast from Southwold to Orford Ness. [11] Army planners favoured a location as close as possible to London. Schlieffen concurred with the naval planners' assessment that British coastal defences ruled out a landing south of Orford Ness.
J.B.M. Frederick, Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660–1978, Vol II, Wakefield: Microform Academic, 1984, ISBN 1-85117-009-X. Lt-Gen H.G. Hart , The New Annual Army List, Militia List, Yeomanry Cavalry List and Indian Civil Service List for 1884 , London: John Murray, 1883.
Voices from the front: an oral history of the Great War. London: Profile Books. ISBN 978-1-78-125475-2. Hart, Peter (2018). The Last Battle; Victory, Defeat, and the End of World War I. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-0872984. Hart, Peter (2022). At close range: life and death in an artillery regiment, 1939–45. London: Profile Books.
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