A downed Zeppelin still smouldering, 1916 (c)

Photograph, World War One, (1914-1918), 1916 (c).

British military personnel inspect the wreckage of a German airship. The first Zeppelin raid on Britain was at Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in January 1915. London was first attacked on 31 May 1915, when seven people were killed and £18,000 worth of damage caused. In the months that followed, 50 further Zeppelin raids took place and a blackout was imposed on the city.

From an album of 76 official photographs.