What is recorded here

This blue commemorative plaque records: On the night of 31st January 1916 Tipton was hit by a zeppelin raid which claimed 14 lives. Most of the casualties occurred in Union Street Recorded plaque organisation: Tipton Civic Society, H. C. Pullinger and Son.

The Zeppelin Raid on Tipton, part of Germany's strategic bombing campaign against Britain during World War I, resulted in 14 fatalities and highlighted the terror and destruction inflicted upon civilian populations by aerial warfare.

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