Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby
The Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby on 16 December 1914 was an attack by the Imperial German Navy on the British ports of Scarborough, Hartlepool, West Hartlepool and Whitby. The bombardments caused hundreds of civilian casualties and resulted in public outrage in Britain against the German Navy for the raid and the Royal Navy for failing to prevent it.
Remember Scarborough! Enlist Now!, Edith Kemp-Welch
British recruiting poster picturing damage from German naval artillery to a civilian house: "No 2 Wykeham Street, Scarborough....four people were killed in this house including the wife...and two children, the youngest aged 5."
A recruitment poster.
In Hartlepool near Heugh Battery, a plaque in Redheugh Gardens War Memorial "marks the place where the first ...(German shell) struck... (and) the first soldier was killed on British soil by enemy action in the Great War 1914–1918".
Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Scarborough is a seaside town in the district and county of North Yorkshire, England. With a population of 61,749, Scarborough is the largest town on the Yorkshire Coast and the fourth-largest settlement in the county.
Image: Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Panorama (1 of 2). By Thomas Tolkien (7983655650)
Image: Scarborough Grand Hotel
Image: Suncourt Enclosure, Scarborough geograph.org.uk 4520418
Image: Toll House, Marine Drive, Scarborough (geograph 5450540)