No. 2 Wykeham Street (4 killed)

Category

Library Item

Item no

30688

Title

German raid, December 16th 1914. No. 2 Wykeham Street (4 killed)

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1914

Size

9.5 x 14.8 cm

Type

Photograph; Reproduction

Location

Reference Library

Accompanying text from the volume 'German Raid on Scarborough' reads, "The house in Wykeham Street where four people were killed by one of the last shells fired by the Germans. Seven people inhabited the house on the day of the bombardment - Mr. and Mrs. Bennett, their two sons, a grandson, a nurse child, and a old lady lodger, aged nearly ninety. Mrs. Bennett, one son (a territorial) and the two children were killed, while the father and the other son, Christopher, were badly wounded. The old lady, Mrs. Edmunds, escaped uninjured save from the shock."

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