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Poplar Recreation Ground Memorial
The Poplar Recreation Ground Memorial is a memorial to 18 children killed at Upper North Street School in Poplar, London, Poplar on 13 June 1917, by the first daylight bombing attack on London by fixed-wing aircraft. Background London had faced air raids by Zeppelin airships in 1915 and 1916. The first fixed-wing bombers to attack targets in England hit Folkestone and Shorncliffe, Kent, Shorncliffe on 25 May 1917, causing 95 deaths and 195 injuries. Cloud prevented this bombing raid reaching its intended target of London. A second raid hit Sheerness on 5 June 1917. Early on Wednesday 13 June 1917, Hauptmann Ernst Brandenburg left an airfield near Ghent in Belgium with a formation of 20 Gotha G.IV aircraft from England Squadron, ''Kampfgeschwader der Obersten Heeresleitung'' 3 (''Kagohl'' 3), as part of Operation Türkenkreuz, the German German strategic bombing during World War I, plan for the strategic bombing of London. The aircraft had been fitted with extra reserve ...
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Poplar may refer to: Plants *''Populus'', the plant genus which includes most poplars, as well as aspen and cottonwood ** Black poplar (''Populus nigra'') ** Carolina or Canadian poplar, ''Populus × canadensis'' ** Grey poplar (''Populus × canescens'') ** White poplar *** ''Populus alba'', native to Eurasia *** ''Populus grandidentata'', bigtooth aspen *** ''Populus tremuloides'', American aspen * ''Liriodendron'', the genus of tulip poplars ** Yellow poplar or tulip poplar (''Liriodendron tulipifera'') ** ''Liriodendron chinense'', Chinese tulip poplar Places ;Canada *Poplar, Ontario, a community in the township of Burpee and Mills *Poplar Creek, British Columbia, a ghost town ;United Kingdom * Poplar, London ** Poplar High Street * Metropolitan Borough of Poplar (1900–1965) * Poplar DLR station * Poplar (UK Parliament constituency) * Poplar and Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency) * Poplar Walk, Christ Church Meadow, Oxford ;United States * Poplar, California * Poplar, ...
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