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We have a number of eyewitness accounts from local people, which I'll publish eventually. But for the moment, I'll start with a remarkable painting, by Harry Fullwood, reproduced in the 3rd London General Hospital's monthly magazine, The Gazette.
Zeppelin raid, 2 September 1916
"An Historic Night. The fall of a Zeppelin as seen from the Hospital in the Autumn."
The view is from the front of the Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum looking northward. Notice the silhouette of a spire on Emanuel School (taken down in 1932). Where exactly did this Zeppelin fall to earth? Notice also the painting is by "Sgt A.H. Fullwood" (see below). I wonder if this painting still exists?
[The Gazette, 3rd London General Hospital, March 1916 [1917?].]
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Harry Fullwood, Balloon View of the 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth Common, 1915.
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[Add a better version? Is this by J.A. Dowd (like the ones below)?]
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A nice homage by Private J.A. Dowd [?] - "A Discoiple of Sgt. Fullwood at Work", Gazette, March 1917.
Notice beneath the rather macabre joke contributed by Edith Holden!
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You may have seen this little video before. (I made it a few years ago). But since it's by Harry Fullwood (whose image of the Zeppelin in flames I've posted above), here it is again:
Harry Fullwood's 1915 incredible aerial view of the RVPA reincarnated as the 3rd London General Hospital.
The music, by the way, is contemporary with the image. Although now often identified with WWII (because it was used so memorably in David Lean's Bridge on the River Kwai), the"Colonel Bogey March" was written in 1914 by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts (1881-1945) (pen name Kenneth J. Alford), a British Army bandmaster.
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