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Just starting this off, as a complete newbie. I've got some reasonable material on the subject so hope to expand in due course - any comments, etc welcome. Scoop100 20:24, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
According to historian Stephen Budiyansky ('Air Power', Viking, 2004) total German raids on Britain in WW I inflicted 1,400 deaths and 4,800 injuries with property damage of 2 million Pounds. The figures do not distinguish between Zeppelin and Gotha or Giant attacks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.223.142.1 ( talk • contribs) 19 October 2007
Perhaps this ought to be at
German strategic bombing of England during World War I. —
Srnec (
talk) 14:04, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
:Disagree. If anything, the material from the German article should be merged into this article to create a single article, but there is enough here about the other strategic bombing campaigns. If the content was merged the material on the German campaign would swamp the article.
TheLongTone (
talk)
14:11, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Humberside did not exist during WW1 and doesn't exist now. So the sentence, "Two Zeppelins targeted Humberside but were diverted by strong winds, and dropped their bombs on Great Yarmouth, Sheringham, King's Lynn and the surrounding villages.", is inaccurate from both a historical and current geographical viewpoint. The original targets may have been Hull docks or Grimsby docks or Scunthorpe steelworks or even Brough aircraft factory, but it certainly wasn't Humberside. 93.155.221.246 ( talk) 13:49, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
"More bombs were dropped on Brixton before crossing the river and dropping 10 joimes on Leyton, killing another eight people and injuring 30." I'm unsure what a 'joime' is, google is also unaware of "joimes". It may be a misspelling of 'bombs', but the physics of typist's fingers is beyond my comprehension. 93.155.221.246 ( talk) 14:18, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
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Between 1915 and 1918, German bombings of Britain—at first using rigid airships but later using aeroplanes—killed more than 1,300 people and injured over 3,000. Concern for the defence against the raids ultimately led to the creation of the Royal Air Force on 1 April 1918.Illustration: Publicity Department, Central Recruiting Depot; restoration: Adam Cuerden
I don't understand why the sentence about nightclothes for women is separated by a <br> instead of either being part of the previous paragraph (which would be my choice) or being a separate paragraph unto itself. But clearly someone did this deliberately, which is why I'm bringing it up here rather than just changing it. Michael Hurwicz ( talk) 21:00, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
I would like to draw attention that the village of Buttington near Welshpool had a distinction of being scene of the only WWI air raid on Wales, according to a book I read titled 'The Welsh Marches' (author forgotten, was reading in 1970s), when a Zeppelin dropped a few bombs without causing casualties then turned back towards England. It would be interesting if, with benefit of published citation, it could be added. I also forget the exact date the anecdote stated, which might have set it in context with one of the raids on Britain already described in this article. Cloptonson ( talk) 12:17, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
Slowly filling gaps and removing cn tags. Keith-264 ( talk) 17:08, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
@ Nigel Ish: Thanks for the sfns, I was contemplating altering the article to sfn but that's because it's the only system I really know. Regards Keith-264 ( talk) 13:03, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
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in an article because I can pull off a find/replace trick on the text. List defined refs are a liability though and should be deprecated.
GraemeLeggett (
talk)
14:27, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
It would be nice to work in a link back to this article. Srnec ( talk) 00:10, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
As there's a lot of narratie about bombing of Britain and next to nothing about other campaigns, I've altered the title, better to reflect the content. I removed "strategic" because both sides didn't really know what they were doing at first. Regards Keith-264 ( talk) 13:43, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
I'm still unsure of a consistent method of breaking up the large slabs of text in the article beyond month-year but I think I have enough sources to finish off the re-edit for B-class rating. Regards Keith-264 ( talk) 21:12, 27 December 2021 (UTC)