How devastating this was ........ The morning of Wednesday June 13 1917 was hot, and the sky was hazy. Nevertheless, onlookers in London's East End were able to see 'a dozen or so big aeroplanes scintillating like so many huge silver dragonflies'. These three-seater bombers were carrying shrapnel bombs - that morning they killed 104 people. Sixteen of the dead were 5 and 6 year olds, in their classroom at Upper North Street School, Poplar - two older children also died. 'The sun had been shining and then it seemed to go out in a roar of thunder.' These are the names and ages of the children who were killed Louise Annie Acampora (5) Alfred Ernest Batt (5) Leonard Charles Barford (5) John Percy Brennan (5) William Thomas Henry Challen (4) Alice Maud Cross (5) William Hollis (5) George Albert Hyde (5) Grace Jones (5) Rose Martin (11) George Morris (6) Edwin Cecil William Powell (12) Robert Stimson (5) Elizabeth Taylor (5) Rose Tuffin (5) Frank Winfield (5) Florence Lilian Wood (5) http://www.ppu.org.uk/memorial/children/index.html http://www.ppu.org.uk/peacematters/pm2002/pm2002_93.html
