PLEASE NOTE THE ESTIMATE IN THE PRINTED CATALOGUE SHOULD READ ���400-600; FULL SHOULD READ *** A RED CROSS ZEPPELIN WIRE TOKEN, adapted as a brooch attached to to a Red Cross card and indicating From the first Zeppelin brought down at Cuffley Essex Sept 3rd 1916. The Schütte-Lanz SL - 11 was one of 16 airships taking part in what was then the biggest raid of the First World War. It was the first German airship to be shot down while bombing England, at Cuffley, Essex by Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson. He was awarded a Victoria Cross for his bravery in action. The Zeppelin pieces that survived were given to the British Red Cross by H.M. war office to raise funds for the war effort particularly to aid those who had been wounded at the front. In a feat of enterprising ingenuity, a number of items were fashioned out of the wire such as rings, cufflinks, bracelets each ranging in price, the present example; a safety-pin brooch cost two shillings and sixpence. They were sold on Our Day, an annual national fundraising event, and by November 1916, £3,010 had been raised by the sale of the Zeppelin relics in London alone.
PLEASE NOTE THE ESTIMATE IN THE PRINTED CATALOGUE SHOULD READ ���400-600; FULL SHOULD READ *** A RED CROSS ZEPPELIN WIRE TOKEN, adapted as a brooch attached to to a Red Cross card and indicating From the first Zeppelin brought down at Cuffley Essex Sept 3rd 1916. The Schütte-Lanz SL - 11 was one of 16 airships taking part in what was then the biggest raid of the First World War. It was the first German airship to be shot down while bombing England, at Cuffley, Essex by Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson. He was awarded a Victoria Cross for his bravery in action. The Zeppelin pieces that survived were given to the British Red Cross by H.M. war office to raise funds for the war effort particularly to aid those who had been wounded at the front. In a feat of enterprising ingenuity, a number of items were fashioned out of the wire such as rings, cufflinks, bracelets each ranging in price, the present example; a safety-pin brooch cost two shillings and sixpence. They were sold on Our Day, an annual national fundraising event, and by November 1916, £3,010 had been raised by the sale of the Zeppelin relics in London alone.
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