pferguson | April 25, 2018
One ANZAC of Gallipoli Today, 25 April, is ANZAC Day, a day when those especially connected to Australia and New Zealand remember those that went before. This before being, the veterans of Gallipoli, a ground this writer visited some while ago and whose heat, landscape, life, and reminders of war remain within. Trooper Rush of […]
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pferguson | April 23, 2018
St. George’s Day – Zeebrugge Day A hundred years ago this day…on St. George’s Day (sometimes known as Zeebrugge Day)…23 April 1918, 1,700 British sailors and marines took part in the raid on the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium. Of the 75 vessels used in the attack some are better known than others including HMS Vindictive […]
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Tags: 23 April 1918, Albert Edward McKenzie VC, Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter VC, Arthur Leyland Harrison VC, Distinguished Service ORder, Dover (England), Edward Bamford VC, George Nicholson Bradford VC, HM Motor Launch 282, HM Submarine C3, HMS Vindictive, Meritorious Service Medal, Mersey Ferries, Mole at Zeebrugge, Norman Augustus Finch VC MSM, Percy Thompson Dean VC, Posthumous Award, Raid on Zeebrugge, Richard Douglas Sandford VC, Royal Marine Artillery, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Royal Navy, Selected by Ballot, SS Daffodil, SS Iris, SS Royal Daffodil, SS Royal Iris, St. George's Day, Victoria Cross, Zeebrugge (Belgium), Zeebrugge Bell, Zeebrugge Day