Online Collection

The Online Collection showcases a selection of our objects for you to discover and explore. This resource will grow as the Museum's Collection is catalogued and computerised, and as new acquisitions are added.

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.

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 1999-11-70-17

Copyright/Ownership

National Army Museum, Out of Copyright

Location

National Army Museum, Study Collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1999-11-70-17