Naval shrapnel picked up by the donor’s grandfather in Gladstone Road, Scarborough while it was still almost too hot to handle.
Images courtesy IWM, catalogue number EPH 10244
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Postman Beal
The flower-decked hearse of Postman Beal who was killed in the German naval bombardment of Scarborough in December 1914.
© IWM (Q 53476)
Driver Bennett
Horse-drawn carriages in Scarborough for the funeral of Driver Bennett, Royal Field Artillery, a victim of the raid on Scarborough by vessels of the 1st Scouting Group of the German High Seas Fleet, commanded by Admiral Franz von Hipper, on 16 December 1914.
Image courtesy © IWM (Q 53461)
The Bennett family
The remains of a house in Scarborough where five members of the Bennett family were killed as a result of the raid on Scarborough by vessels of the 1st Scouting Group of the German High Seas Fleet, commanded by Admiral Franz von Hipper, on 16 December 1915.
Image courtesy © IWM (Q 53477)
Image courtesy © IWM (Q 53484)
Image © IWM (Q 53463)
Bertha MacIntyre
John Shields Ryalls, aged 14 months, one of the youngest victims of the bombardment, in the arms of Miss Bertha MacIntyre, who was killed at the same time.
Image courtesy © IWM (Q 53464)
John Shields Ryalls
John Shields Ryalls, aged 14 months, one of the youngest victims of the bombardment, in the arms of Miss Bertha MacIntyre, who was killed at the same time.
Image courtesy © IWM (Q 53464)