Title:THE IMMORTAL STORY OF ZEEBRUGGE [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 656b
Other titles:
Summary: 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.
Description: 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.
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Carpenter, Alfred Francis Blakeney (person)
Sandford, Richard Douglas (person)
Dean, Percy Thompson (person)
Bamford, Edward (person)
Finch, Norman Augustus (person)
Royal Navy (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Royal Marines (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Iphigenia (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Intrepid (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Thetis (regiment/service)
British Army (regiment/service)
Belgian Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, British civilian - cargo: Brussels & [expended] (object name)
ships, British naval - cruiser: Iphigenia & [expended] (object name)
ships, British naval - cruiser: Intrepid & [expended] (object name)
ships, British naval - cruiser: Thetis & [expended] (object name)
ships, British naval - cruiser: Caledon Class (object name)
weapons, German - gun: 105mm naval gun & [captured] & [wrecked] (object name)
buildings, British - institutional: Buckingham Palace (object name)
ceremonies, British - state: investiture (object name)
medical, British military - emergency (object name)
medical, Belgian military - emergency (object name)
12/3(261.2).842 (event)
31/3(493) (event)
01/3(4-15).9 (event)
Zeebrugge, West Flanders, Belgium (geography)
GB, England & London, SW <Buckingham Palace> (geography)
Belgium (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Silent
Soundtrack language: None
Title language: English
Subtitle language: English
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 176 ft; Running time: 3 mins
