 During the First World War , a number of barracks and voluntary hospitals were set up around the city , and in 1917 a German bomber crash @-@ landed near Broad Oak Road . During the Second World War , 10 @,@ 445 bombs dropped during 135 separate raids destroyed 731 homes and 296 other buildings in the city , including the missionary college and Simon Langton Girls ' Grammar Schools , and 115 people were killed . The most devastating raid was on 1 June 1942 during the Baedeker Blitz . 
