the IMMORTAL STORY OF ZEEBRUGGE [Main]


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  • Jahr: 1918
  • Dauer: 3 mins
  • Beschreibung: The film starts with a scene meant to be of the mole at Zeebrugge in 1914 (in fact showing a British Caledon Class cruiser in 1917 or 1918 at another location). The mole after the British occupation of Zeebrugge, showing the abandoned German naval guns and the mail boat SS Brussels sunk in the channel. More views of the area. The block-ships HMS Iphigenia and HMS Intrepid are still visible in mid-channel, as is HMS Thetis. Portrait shots of officers and men who won the Victoria Cross in the raid, after receiving their decorations at Buckingham Palace: Captain Alfred Carpenter, Lieutenant Richard Sandford, Lieutenant-Commander Percy Dean, Major E Bamford of the Royal Marines, and Sergeant Norman Finch, also of the Royal Marines.
    I. A retrospective on the Zeebrugge raid of 22nd-23rd April 1918, made at the end of the First World War.II. A brief scene of wounded British and Belgian soldiers together at a dressing station, Western Front, late 1918.
  • Schlüsselwörter: EFG1914 / World War I / Carpenter, Alfred Francis Blakeney / Sandford, Richard Douglas / Dean, Percy Thompson / Bamford, Edward / Finch, Norman Augustus / Royal Navy / World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations, British / Royal Navy, Royal Marines / Royal Navy, Iphigenia / Royal Navy, Intrepid / Royal Navy, Thetis / British Army / Belgian Army / ships, British civilian - cargo: Brussels & [expended] / ships, British naval - cruiser: Iphigenia & [expended] / ships, British naval - cruiser: Intrepid & [expended] / ships, British naval - cruiser: Thetis & [expended] / ships, British naval - cruiser: Caledon Class / weapons, German - gun: 105mm naval gun & [captured] & [wrecked] / buildings, British - institutional: Buckingham Palace / ceremonies, British - state: investiture / medical, British military - emergency / medical, Belgian military - emergency / 12/3(261.2).842 / 31/3(493) / 01/3(4-15).9 / Zeebrugge, West Flanders, Belgium / GB, England & London, SW / Belgium / World War, 1914-1918 -- Belgium
  • Anbieter: Imperial War Museums
  • Rechte: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Farbe: Black & White
  • Ton: Without sound

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