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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.
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 War in the Air Being the Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. IV (pbk. facs. repr. Imperial War Museum Department of Printed Books and Battery Press, Uckfield ed.). London: Clarendon Press.
In 1906, official histories were being written by three departments at the War Office and one in the Admiralty. Lord Esher, a member of the Committee of Imperial Defence, suggested that a subcommittee be established as the Historical Section, to centralise the collection of army and navy archives, as a repository of the lessons of war for strategists.
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.
Prince of Wales's 2nd Brigade at Great Yarmouth ... Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660–1978, ... War Office, Monthly Army List, ...
Great War:The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict (13 volumes). London: The Amalgamated Press. Hammerton, Sir John Alexander (1933). A Popular History of the Great War (6 volumes). London: The Amalgamated Press. Hart, Peter (2013). The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Following the outbreak of war in 1914, Kell was restored to active duty as a GSO 2, [13] and was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel on 5 September. [14] On 1 March 1915, he was appointed a GSO 1, retaining his temporary rank. [ 15 ]