David Marks
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WW1 aviation enthusiast. Author of Let the Zeppelins Come and The Zeppelin Offensive: A German Perspective in Pictures and Postcards
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Ian Castle pictured delivering an outstanding presentation yesterday to an Edinburgh audience at a packed Scots Guards Club about the Zeppelin raid on the city - almost 110 years to the day. Many thanks to Ian, plus branch members & our friends, for making it such a great event.
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@Newbattleatwar I remember your excellent writing on the Zeppelin raid very well, John, In fact, you helped me with some last minute photo-research for an article on the Zeppelin raid that appeared in Edition No.108 of 'Stand To!' (January/February 2017).
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'Target Rosyth' - Spring 1916 HMS Dreadnought in dry dock at No.1 Dock in Rosyth during a refit in 1916. The first ship dry docked at Rosyth on 28 March 1916. Six nights later, Zeppelins would attempt to strike at the dockyard. Bombs would fall instead in Edinburgh. IWM (SP3127)
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What an extraordinary find! @ChiefHutBuilder spoke about these 65lb aerial bombs in this short #HutVent film in 2021: https://t.co/fnC0Wmr8i6 🙂
Quote: “Our find of the day! A British Type 112 RL aircraft bomb. This projectile had been hidden in the soil for over 108 years at a depth of more than one meter. The bomb was located after surveying the construction site using a trolley, followed by an analysis of the data at
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This looks interesting - see you there? On Thursday, 23 April 2026 at 6pm, Dr Ross Mahoney will assess the challenges encountered in the production of The War in the Air, the official history of Britain’s role in the air war of the First World War. https://t.co/4iKLsubHIh
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The first air-raid on Scotland was 25 years earlier, on the night of 2-3 April 1916 - when two Zeppelins attacked Edinburgh. Historian Ian Castle will be making his speaking debut in Edinburgh at our Branch talking about this famous event. See below 👇
#Onthisday in 1941, the German Luftwaffe launched an attack on the munitions factories of Clydeside. The air raids of the Clydebank Blitz saw over 200 bombers take to the skies on the nights of 13 and 14 March resulting in 528 casualties and over 600 people injured. #LestWeForget
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goldbeaters’ skin - a thin and delicate material made from the outer membrane of ox intestines. Today, female representation in the UK aircraft manufacturing workforce is thought to be around 10-20%, with just 2-10% involved in hands-on production.
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By mid-1916, about 60% of the staff at the Royal Aircraft Factory were women and girls. The deployment of men to the armed forces led to industrial jobs for women, including manufacturing non-rigid airships with their huge envelopes fabricated from multiple layers of...
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8 March 1917, Count von Zeppelin, died, aged 78. 1858-1890, served in armies of Prussia & then Imperial Germany. Devoted rest of life to creation of rigid dirigible airship for which his surname's a popular generic term. 100+ Zeppelins were used for military operations in #WW1.
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7 March 1918, a German bomber dropped a 1,000 kg bomb on Warrington Crescent near London’s Paddington station. Lena Guilbert Ford, writer of popular #WW1 song "Keep the Home Fires Burning" & her 30-year-old son were killed, becoming the first U.S. citizens to be killed in a raid.
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Farman MF.11 reconnaissance biplane pusher fitted with an early radio set and trailing aerial during the First World War
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@IanCastleRaids Further details about Ian's talk in Edinburgh can be found on this link. https://t.co/tiYCJcKigN
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And the next speaker is... (checks notes), oh it's me! Sun 29 March. Edinburgh 1916 - The Night The Zeppelin Came - a 110th anniversary talk. My first lecture north of the border. Hope to see you there.
Allan Downie delivering a very erudite lecture to a packed room at the Scots Guards Club in Edinburgh on Sunday 15th February. His presentation on 'Scotland's Territorials at Peace and War' got our new 2026 programme off to a fantastic start.
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