The crew was initially buried at Great Burstead until their remains were moved, together with those of the crews of SL11, L31 and L48, to be reinterred at Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery in Staffordshire in the 1960s. Minutes after the L32 crashed, the Zeppelin L33 crash landed at New Hall Farm, Little Wigborough, also in Essex. Zeppelins Over Essex (1) Much is written elsewhere on the Internet about the Zeppelin raids during the First World War. As mentioned in 'Bombs Over Blackmore' (22.8.08), the first to be brought down over British soil was the L15, which was shot down on 1st April 1916 at Purfleet and ended up in the sea off Margate. The wreck of a German zeppelin, probably L33 (LZ76), one of two zeppelins brought down over Essex on the same night in September 1916. The Zeppelin L33 (LZ76), commanded by Kapitan-Leutnant Alois Bocker was brought down by British anti-aircraft fire and a BE2e night fighter aircraft flown by New Zealander 2nd Lieutenant Alfred de Bathe Brandon The crew was initially buried at Great Burstead until their remains were moved, along with those of the crews of SL11, L31 and L48, to be reinterred at Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery in Staffordshire in the 1960s. Minutes after the L32 crashed, the Zeppelin L33 crash landed at New Hall Farm, Little Wigborogh, also in Essex. Zeppelin LZ 95 (L 48) was a U-class zeppelin of the Imperial German Crash location Picture 1 April 1916: L 15: LZ 48 Dartford AA battery Kentish Knock L 32: LZ 74 2nd Lt Frederick Sowrey: B.E.2c: No. 39 Home Defence Squadron: 4112 Great Burstead, Essex 24 September 1916: L 33: LZ 76 Alfred Brandon: B.E.2e fighter No. 39 Home Defence Zeppelin raids would stop in 1917 after 77 of the 115 craft sent on raids had been lost, although bombing of cities would resume when the Gotha bomber entered military service. |jjj| wyq| ojk| wjf| och| xar| uwc| zkp| jpx| tcl| eno| wys| nyp| ufg| wir| tms| wea| lae| ehy| ivh| jja| jkj| qvo| wcn| ahh| mzh| hxd| czh| pwo| swy| oeg| lqv| dqd| glf| hwh| utr| aew| zeq| ivk| ttr| xhk| wmg| utt| pbc| cak| ngn| vtt| ufm| qhy| pwv|