Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-04
TOLL OF AIR RAIDS
SHOWN IN REPORT
London Fire Brigade Reveals
Number of Buildings
Struck.
FOUR ARE KILLED AT MINT
War Office Is Damaged and
Hospital Is Hit Twice
by Bombs.

LONDON. May 3.-Air raid damage
to public buildings in London have
issued by the London Fire Brigade
No important places were affected
IN the hrst and second raids but in
The third September $. 1873, the Bench
the Examination Hall of the Royal
College Of Physicians and Surgeons. in
Queen Square, Iolborn: were damaged.
pany OF Butchers, in Bartholomew
close. was wrecked.
After Gray's Inn. Lincoln's Inn. The
fectcd by the raid Of October 10. 1915;
chapel, were severely damaged.
On this occasion much damage was
Strand The Royal Courts OF Jas
tice suffered severe damage on the
west front and the new exters on.
Thirteen bombs fell at woolwich.
Artillery and Grand Depot Barracks
were wrecked and the officers quar-.
tiers badly dana aged. together with the
Guards racquets courts and several
other buildings.
-Four Killed at Mint.
The interesting Queen Elizabeth
College Almshouses. with their chapel
in Greenwich road. We're severely dam
aged in the fifth raid, and the Royal
"A bomb which killed four and injured
thirty people.
In the great daylight raid of Sat
urday. July .; 1917. nothing very i'm
age to public buildings. But the Royal
General Dispensary in Bartholomew
close was severely damaged, and the
Upper floors of the Central Telegraph
office were demolished and a military
sentry was killed; the drill hall OF
the London Volunteer Headquarters
a Il.
and ironmongers' Hall-a big range OF
buildings-were badly knocked about.
and the Custom House in Lower
Thames Street was damaged
Drill Hall Hit Twice.
The, Volunteer drill hall referred TO
September 2e-nearly three months
later; this time by one of our own
shells.
Charins Cross Hospital Medical
Street. was severely damaged on Sep
TENDER I. 19l7--thc night when go
ieet OF the Victoria embankment was
aged buldfngs in. and about.thc Strand
He G ta nsIadfS e key srv s.sts sIaR
Society and the Ministry Of Munitions.
The Royal Academy had a bad time
on the first floor was severely dam
aged, and a studio. lecture ROOM othe r
galleries, and the Anatomical School
received minor damage. Near by, the
Royal Society. the Linnean Society,
Burlington House. the Civil Service
Commission, the Royal Thames Yacht
Club, the Berkeley Hotel and the Turf
Club suffered.
Hospital Again Damaged.
On September %, 1917 (and again on
December l9). Bethlehem Hospital in
Lambert Road was damaged. Next
night the roof of Parliament Chamber,
Middle Temple Hall, Temple, was dam
aircraft shells also damaged the Royal
Botanic Gardens and two wards of the
Military Hospital in Shooters Hill; two
graves in West Norwood Cemetery were
plouEhed up, and wards of an infirmary
IN Dartmouth Park Hill and ST
Joseph's Retreat on Highgatc Hill were
damaged.
Part of the roof of the Board of In
land Revenue at Somerset House was
demolished on December 9. 1917, when
the meeting and lccturc-rooms of the
Great Assembly Hall. Milc-End Road.
were badly burned by two incendiary
bombs.
War Office struck.
the War Office and Scotland Yard
were damaged at the same time The
Admiralty was hit on January IS 1915
in which raid Floral Hall. Covent Car
dcn Was severely damaged, and thirty
one people were killed and nicnty-
eight injured in the demolition of the
large building that contained Oldham S
printing works. Long Acre. Great dam
age was caused at the Chelsea Hos
pital on February &c. five people be-
ing killed. and on the next night the
Midland Grand Hotel. st. Pancras, was
very severely damaged--fifteen people
there OF therca bouts were Killed and
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