Gotha Terror by Ian Castle

Author:Ian Castle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2024-12-30T00:00:00+00:00

A shell-case came through the top bay window of the bedroom, penetrated the floor, and struck her, fracturing her skull. Hearing the crash [her father] went into the room and found his daughter lying on the floor dead. A doctor said the right side of the skull was fractured, and there was a laceration of the brain.21

About 20 minutes before the last bombs fell on London, an attack had developed off Felixstowe on the Suffolk coast, probably made by a couple of Gothas returning or turned away from the capital. At 9.40pm the Harwich and Felixstowe guns burst into action when bombs exploded at sea. The combination of barrage fire and searchlights drove the Gothas away but about 12 minutes later seven bombs fell near Stone Point, to the north of Walton-on-the-Naze, either in the sea or on the salt marshes.

The raid on the 1 October proved to be the last of the Harvest Moon Offensive. The weather had turned during the raid, with banks of mist hampering the defence aircraft, and brought an end to the intense period of aerial attacks. It had certainly proved a testing time for the anti-aircraft gunners as Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Rawlinson recalled.

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