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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.
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 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]
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 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. V (pbk. facs. repr. Imperial War Museum Department of Printed Books and Battery Press, Uckfield ed.). London: Clarendon Press.
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. OCLC 865180297. Massie, Robert K. (2004). Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-04092-1.
HMS Kestrel, World War II Royal Naval Air Station at Worthy Down, Hampshire [16] HMS Merlin, Fife 1917–1959 RNAS Donibristle ... HMS Midge, Great Yarmouth;