Goole Zeppelin Air Raid Memorial

War memorial, erected 1922, built in white marble with Portland stone curbs and lectern, by local monumental mason Mr H O Tasker. The Goole Zeppelin War Memorial is situated within the central circular plot at the focal point of Goole Cemetery and it faces north-west, directly towards the entrance gateway. The memorial is situated over the six public graves of the victims of the raid, which is demarcated by very low curb stones surrounding an area laid in slate chippings. The memorial consists of a white marble open book on a low Portland stone lectern, raised on a stepped stone plinth, placed at the head of the grave, situated within a rectangular enclosure laid in stone chippings and surrounded by low Portland stone curbs with corner and centre posts. The pages of the memorial have an inscription in lead letters that reads - ‘IN MEMORIAM. IN MEMORY OF THE SIXTEEN CITIZENS OF GOOLE, WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN A GERMAN ZEPPELIN RAID ON THIS UNDEFENDED TOWN ON THE 9TH AUGUST, 1915. ETERNAL REST GIVEN UNTO THEM, O LORD.’ Then follows a list of the names and ages of the deceased – ‘SARAH ACASTER, AGED 65 YEARS. SARAH ANN ACASTER, AGED 34 YEARS. KEZIA ACASTER, AGED 32 YEARS. VIOLET STAINTON, AGED 18 YEARS. HANNAH GOODALL, AGED 74 YEARS. ALICE HARRISON, AGED 6 YEARS. FLORENCE HARRISON, AGED 4 YEARS. MARGARET SELINA PRATT, AGED 9 MONTHS. AGNES PRATT, AGED 36 YEARS. ALICE ELIZABETH WOODHALL, AGED 3 YEARS. GRACE WOODHALL, AGED 31 YEARS. MARY CARROLL, AGED 32 YEARS. JAMES CARROLL, AGED 26 YEARS. ALICE CARROLL, AGED 4 YEARS. GLADYS CARROLL, AGED 3 YEARS. ALICE SMITH, AGED 17 YEARS. The upper riser of the plinth has an inscription that referred to the monument being paid for by public subscription but it has weathered and is now illegible.

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 1 February 2017.