A Great War Zeppelin relic

A Great War Zeppelin relic, being a wooden propeller salvaged from Zeppelin LZ112 (airship L70), the last Zeppelin to be shot down during the war, 79.35 cm long, the blades curved along one edge, the central depression pierced for bolts, painted with the words "This Propeller was taken from the last Zeppelin to be shot down over England. Immingham August 1918"; together with a reproduction of a portrait photograph of Commander Peter Strasser, who died in command of L70. [2]

On the 6th August 1918 Zeppelin LZ112 (L70) was shot down over the sea near Immingham in Lincolnshire by a de Havilland DH-4 flown by Major Egbert Cadbury, with Captain Robert Leckie as rear gunner. During the following weeks the wreckage was brought ashore, and a number of the crew received sea burials.