Image courtesy: Accade Oggi
Remember Scarborough! recruitment poster
The most famous of the post-Scarborough recruitment posters.
Via Wikipedia by Lucy E. Kemp-Welch (1869–1958) – This image was taken from http://www.miscman.com/posters_graphics/images/large/RememberscaroBig.jpeg. Details and another version of this poster can be found here, PD-US, Link
Bombardment memorial cairn
Manor Road cemetery was opened in 1872 as an enlargement of the earlier Dean Road cemetery. The path going between the retaining walls runs into an area known as the Secret Garden.
In the image below, on the right, is the new cairn built to commemorate those who lost their lives during the German bombardment of Scarborough on 16 December 1914.
Please also see the article about the restoration of the victims’ graves and a cemetery guide.
Image © Copyright Christopher Hall and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
We will remember them ….
The victims of the bombardment of 16 December 1914.
Leonard Ellis, back of Londesborough Road.
Harry Harland (30).
Harry Frith (45) 1 Bedford Street.
Alfred Beal(41) 50 Raleigh Street, killed Dunollie.
Margaret Briggs (29) Filey Road.
John Shields Ryalls (14 Months) 22 Westbourne Park.
Miss Bertha McIntyre (42) 22 Westbourne Park.
Mrs Johanna Bennett (58) 2 Wykeham Street.
Albert Bennett (22) 2 Wykeham Street.
John Christopher H Ward (9) 2 Wykeham Street.
George James Barnes (9) 2 Wykeham Street.
John Hall (65) 28 Westbourne Park.
Mrs Emily Lois Merryweather (30) 43 Prospect Road.
George Harland Taylor (15) 45 North Street.
Mrs Mary Prew (60) 17a Belle Vue Street.
Mrs Ada Crow (28) 124 Falsgrave Road.
Miss Edith Crosby (39) 1 Belvedere Road.
Mrs Duffield (38) Esplanade.
In Whitby:
Mrs Miller, of Springhill Terrace
Fredrick Randall, a coastguard, who lived in one of the Admiralty cottages
Wiliam H Tunmore (61), a railwayman, of Grey St
Shell shrapnel
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
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)