Zeppelin Over Yarwell

We are nearly there. The Zeppelin is in its final resting place and Mike has put up the sign.

On March 6th 1916  John Coleman Binder  in Oundle was called out for duty at 11.15 pm because zeppelins were in the area. He heard a zeppelin but did not see it. One of the other men also on night duty heard an explosion in the distance.  On the following day Coleman Binder learnt that Zeppelins had sailed over the Eastern counties along the east coast but the Zeppelins got no further west than Wansford.

This might have been the occasion when a bomb was dropped somewhere above Wansford.

On Friday 19th April 1918 Zeppelins raided again this time dropping a bomb which fell into a wheat field opposite the Yarwell/Nassington cemetery. The explosion was so load that it could be heard in Oundle 10 miles away. The bomb crater is still visible in the field.