Hello GenTravelers!
For any of you with ancestors from the Sheffield, England area, I’d say you’re lucky to have such an excellent resource in The Sheffield and District Family History Society. Their website {LINK HERE} is top-notch. It has publications of their projects to purchase and even has online searchable indexes.
In the Autumn 2016 issue of ‘The Flowing Stream‘ (Sheffield and District Family History Society’s journal), Dave Capewell, a S&DFHS society member, wrote about the devastating results of Zeppelin raids in ‘The Great War’ – over 100 years ago. The article details a particular raid upon Sheffield and lists the full death toll. If you have any of the surnames listed below from that area, you’ll want to read the entire article. If you find yourself GenTraveling to Sheffield, be sure to visit the memorial (although according to Capewell’s article, this memorial is not in the most prominent of locations!) The memorial inscriptions reads:
1914-1918
THE GREAT WAR
“LEST WE FORGET”
ON SEPTEMBER 26TH 1916
NINE MEN
TEN WOMEN
AND TEN CHILDREN
WERE KILLED BY A GERMAN
AIR RAID ON SHEFFIELD
ONE OF THE BOMBS FELL
CLOSE TO THIS SPOT
Surnames of the 26 September 1916 zeppelin raid death toll:
Shakespeare, Tyler, Brewington, Hames, Southerington, Rhodes, Harrison, Newton, Wilson, Bellamy, Coogan, Taylor, Stratford, Guest.
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