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16/12/2014. <br />
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Hartlepool, United Kingdom<br />
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Wooden crosses and 130 ceramic poppies previously on display at The Tower of London are planted by school children to commemorate those killed during an event to commemorate the bombardment of Hartlepool by German warships during World War One. During the bombardment 130 civilians were killed and more than 500 were wounded. The Headland's Heugh Gun Battery returned fire in what was the only battle to be fought on British soil during World War One, and one of the Battery's soldiers, Theo Jones of the Durham Light Infantry, became the first British soldier to be killed by enemy action on home ground in the war.<br />
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Photo credit : Ian Forsyth/LNP