While at Gosport he attended a funeral for 13 Wrens — killed when their billet received a direct hit from a German bomber. My father worked at a local steelworks where field guns were manufactured.

As part of the World War One At Home project, carried out in partnership between the BBC and Imperial War Museums, Gerry Jackson explores some century-old coastal architecture in Redcar and ...

Before the 20th Century, civilians in Britain were largely unaffected by war, but this was to change on 19 January 1915 with the first air attacks of World War One by the German Zeppelin.

The German military had developed a version of the Zeppelin airship that could be used like its seaborne counterpart to raid the British mainland.