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CAPTAIN LEEFE ROBINSON, V.C

... prisoners who landed Leith on Saturday from Copenhagen was Robinson, who won the Victoria Cross tor bringing down the first Zeppelin in Britain—at Cuffley in September, 1916. He was shortly afterwards himself bronght down Germans in air scrap over Douai ...

Published: Monday 16 December 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 155 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FINEST AIR STATION IN THE WORLD

... one the Sub-Commissions was to the wrack of the Zeppelin sheds at Tondern. It was this station which was so successfully bombed by aeroplanes launched from the Furious last summer, two sheds and two Zeppelins were completely demolished. THROUGH THE KIEL ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1106 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Cnn.Dßßjr’B SSKLTBR STRUCK

... London, too; Boleyn Road, Stoke Newington, over fifty buildings were wrecked. The seventeenth paid, October 19, Ml 7, was Zeppelin raid—that which several airships ware brought down Prance, and others wore lost in the Mediterranean. Only three bombs were ...

Published: Monday 23 December 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 258 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS

... in reaching objective. Undeterred this, succeeded, and effieotivalj bombed the aerodrome, obtaining two direct hits large Zeppelin shed. Sec. Lieut. F. S. Coco re. (France) August 31 this officer carried out most successful contact patrol over the front ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 788 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LABOUR AND PEACE

... fired 168 shells, killing 196 people end wounding 417. Two hundred and twentj.-eight bombs were dropped by aeroplanes and Zeppelins, killing persons and injuring 392. The arrondissements which suffered most were the Fifth, Seventh, Tenth, Fifteenth, Nineteenth ...

Published: Thursday 19 December 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1467 | Page: 5 | Tags: none