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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.
RAF Great Massingham: RAF: July 1940 – November 1950 (closed to flying) Farmland/Limited Flying: Bomber station. [15] RAF Great Yarmouth: RNAS Great Yarmouth [16] RNAS, RAF: April 1913 – November 1920: Camp Site [17] Land and seaplane base during WWI. [18] In WW2 used by No. 16 Recruits Centre from 1941–1946 (AIR 29/504) [19] RAF Hardwick ...
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.
The Raid on Yarmouth, which took place in November 1914, was an attack by the German Navy on the British North Sea port and town of Great Yarmouth. Little damage was done to the town itself, since shells only landed on the beach once German ships laying mines offshore were interrupted by British destroyers.
Great Yarmouth (/ ˈ j ɑːr m ə θ / YAR-məth), often called Yarmouth, is a seaside town which gives its name to the wider Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England; it straddles the River Yare and is located 20 miles (32 km) east of Norwich. [3] Its fishing industry, mainly for herring, shrank after the mid-20th century and has all but ...
The first air raid over Britain. Two German Navy Zeppelin airships drop bombs and incendiaries over Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in Norfolk; four civilians are killed and sixteen injured. [14] Damage to houses in King's Lynn caused by a Zeppelin airship raid in 1915. 12 February 1915 The Kaiser authorises airship raids on the London Docks.
The site was sold to Colman's for food manufacturing in 1890 and then to Great Yarmouth Borough Council in 1924; the buildings suffered some damage during the Second World War. [1] At some point, the barracks were demolished, and an housing estate called Barrack Estate was built on the site. [4]