Zeppelin Kommt! Children play a Zeppelin raid on London. Holding his bomb in the gondola is a doll of the airship's inventor, Count Zeppelin. The other children, playing the English, cower, and the British fleet — folded paper boats — remains in port. Prewar postcards celebrated the imposing airships and the excitement they generated with the same expression, 'Zeppelin Kommt!'. Postcard by P.O. Engelhard (P.O.E.). The message on the reverse is dated May 28, 1915.
P.O.E.? EnglandLondonZeppelin Kommt!Reverse:Message dated May 28, 1915Stamped: Geprüft und zu befördern (Approved and forwarded) 9 Komp. Bay. L.I.N. 5
"Morale was higher [among the Allied troops in Greece]—partly because the hardship of winter was over, but also because the proximity of the Germans suggested a purpose for being in this odd corner of Europe. The destruction of a Zeppelin by naval gunners on May 5 in full view of the people of Salonika also raised the spirits of the troops, especially among the British contingent, for their families at home had already been subject to raids of this type and it was to be another four months before the first Zeppelin was shot down on English soil. Throughout the Salonika base, there was an air of expectancy."
From their base in the port of Salonica, Allied forces had expanded their footprint in Greece to the frontier, where they skirmished with Bulgarian and German troops. In spring, 1916, the Allied camp contained French and British troops originally transported from the failed Gallipoli front, the remains of Serbia's army, now recovered from its defeat and forced retreat to the Adriatic coast, and Russian troops that had sailed from Archangel on the White Sea.
The Gardeners of Salonika by Alan Palmer, page 62, copyright © 1965 by A. W. Palmer, publisher: Simon and Schuster, publication date: 1965
1916-05-05, 1916, May, Salonica, Salonika, Greece, Zeppelin
