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From: Frederick Feather <>
Subject: Zeppelin L33
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 19:32:13 +0100
References: <00a001c2157a$a7b14040$85f10250@ColleenMorrison>
In-Reply-To: <00a001c2157a$a7b14040$85f10250@ColleenMorrison>


Thinking further about it I believe Zeppelina lives(d) in the same road
in Great Totham, not Wickham Bishops.

In the Jam Museum at Wilkins Ltd of Tiptree there is the photo of the
machine gun that Zeppelin L33 dropped through their roof whilst trying
to lighten up and get away from the army plane. There is a big exhibit
in the Essex Police Museum.

Fred,
E.S.F.H.





In message <00a001c2157a$a7b14040$>, Colleen
<> writes
>23rd September 1916. Dr Salter's Diary records:
>
>'...my servants rapped me up in the early part of the night saying ... there
>was a Zeppelin on fire in the Sou'-west...I jumped out of bed, looked out of
>my sou west window, and there I saw, in the distance, in the direction of
>London, a big burning globe in the sky, which on watching it a little while,
>disappeared like a big rocket of falling stars.'
>
>It turned out to be the first of two Zeppelins which fell that night. Dr
>Salter is later woken again to go and deliver a daughter to the wife of
>'Clarke of Abbotts Hall, Wigborough'. Hardly out of bed, Dr Salter is told
>by Trim, chief constable at Mersea that he must forget that and go and
>attend to farmer Wright who, spooked by the sight of the second Zeppelin
>crash, had been badly smashed in a motor bike accident. Salter passes the
>second Zeppelin, lying in a massive, crumpled heap like 'burning Crystal
>Palace' in fields at New Hall Farm, Wigborough. He recalls that three of the
>Zeppelin crew who survived the crash, walked into Peldon and brazenly asked
>constable Edgar Nicholas for directions to Colchester. The constable
>promptly arrested them!
>
>Little Wigborough church was presented with a piece of the Zeppelin, which
>is still displayed above it's tower arch, Gt Wigborough church has a
>contemporary newspaper article, framed in a piece of the Zeppelin too also
>photos of the crash and other material. The book, 'Around Maldon' has a
>contemporary drawing of the crew being apprehended by what appears to be
>every man, woman and child in Wigborough - though contemporary accounts say
>it was all down to 6-7 special constables from the village. 'Around Maldon'
>also has a photo of these constables having a well earned pint outside a
>Wigborough beerhouse. Who were they? They apparently received commemorative
>watches (Around Maldon has a photo of Nicholas's) - were they also decorated
>for bravery?
>
>Are there listers researching any of the above and can anyone throw any
>light on the following? The pilot of Zeppelin L33, was Loys Bocker - was he
>one of the three that survived the crash? Does any one know what happened
>to the surviving Zeppelin crew?
>
>Dr Salter records that he suggested that the Clarke baby, a girl, should be
>called Zeppelina. Was she?
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Colleen
>
>
>
>The churches of Gt and Little Wigborough
>
>______________________________

--
Frederick Feather

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