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East Coast Bombardment

Name: East Coast Bombardment – Great Britain factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1914Date range

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Chronological records

1914

Henry Herbert Asquith Oxford, 1st16 December 1914

Hartlepool · Warfare / World War, 1st

A German squadron bombards Hartlepool, Scarborough and Whitby.

Names involved

Henry Herbert Asquith Oxford, 1st

Provenance

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