Theberton

Theberton is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. It is located north-east of Saxmundham, and miles north of Leiston, its post town. In 2011 the parish had a population of 279.

==History== thumb|upright=1.2|Theberton village sign, showing a crashed Zeppelin at left During the First World War, a German Zeppelin airship, L48, was shot down near Theberton at 02:00 on the morning of 17 June 1917, by Robert Saundby and others, while it was on a bombing raid. Sixteen members of the crew died in the crash; three survived but one later died from his injuries. The bodies of the crew were buried in a dedicated plot adjacent to the churchyard, with women munition workers voluntarily digging the graves. Local people tended the graves until 1966, when they were reinterred at Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery in Staffordshire. A memorial plaque remains across the road from St Peter's Church, where part of the Zeppelin framework is mounted in the porch.