question WWI Blackout's?

[airportable]

I have been asked by a friend if ANY blackout no matter how short a period or restricted area happened during WWI? He has searched net etc, only one little comment found on WIKI. Would like good referance befor commiting pen to paper. Thanks.

[MHillyard]

Not sure if these help, i will try to find more info later. There seem to be a lot of references to dim-outs rather than blackouts

 

This new atrocity, only tersely announced, aroused fresh suspicions. At home they had experienced the general blackout for the first time. Raiding Zeppelins, blackouts, and censorship?

http://acepilots.com/wwi/zeppelin.html

 

In our area the blackout lasted until the evening of Sunday April 20th 1945 (on the coast it lasted until midnight on May 10th), but it had been relaxed to a "dimout" in all areas away from the south and east coasts on September 17th 1944.

http://www.bpears.org.uk/Misc/War_NE/w_section_06.html

 

The Germans also attacked Britain itself. For the fist time, civilians themselves were targeted with bombing raids by Zeppelins and coastal raids by the German Navy. The first Zeppelin raid on London was at midnight on May 31st 1915, when Hauptmann Linnarz bombed the capital killing seven people and making £18,000 worth of damage. In the months that followed,

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/home_front_1914_to_1918.htm

Edited December 17, 2011 by MHillyard

[airportable]

Thank you very much for your help.

[Tony B]

Yes there were blackout regulation in WW1, on the coast following German Naval bombardments and later due to the Zepplin raids. Try looking under D.O.R.A. The East Anglia Fil, Archive have a documentary made in the 1960 possibly early 70's on the Zepplin Raids. Worth watching as it has interviews with suvivours.