The majority of the raids happened in 1915 and 1916, with half in London - and it was following one bombing raid on the capital that a Zeppelin had an unexpected landing in Essex. Read next ...

For the zeppelin crews, exhilaration and fear went hand in hand. Recalling a 1915 bombing run over London in a magazine article published 13 years later, Lieutenant Commander Joachim Breithaupt ...