In the 1st raid of its kind in history, the British town of Yarmouth was bombed in 1915 by a German one of these
The German fleet sent a 
battlecruiser squadron with accompanying cruisers ... A proposal was made to 
bombard towns on the east coast of England at... [DOC] [TLE] The first Zeppelin raid on Britain and the birth of the Blitz spirit [PAR] Jan 18, 2015 ... Circa 1915: A German Zeppelin ascending from its base for a raid on ... the 
seaside town of Yarmouth and dropped nine bombs on the town's St ... Wortley-
Waters, one of the last surviving Britons with memories of the Zeppelin raids on ... 
in Modern European History at Australia's University of New England.