DescriptionHeugh Battery memorial plaque Geograph 1608078 0295fa65-by-Andrew-Curtis.jpg
Plaque (listed on the site of origin as 'near the Heugh Battery' and described within the minutes of Hartlepool Borough Council dated 7 December 1921 as 'War Memorial Tablet') marking location where first German navy shell landed during its attack on Hartelepool and where the first British soldier was killed on the British mainland during World War I, on 16 December 1914.
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