Burying the dead from Zeebrugge. We are standing where the x is
postcard, photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.2005-08-41-3
Description
Burying the dead from Zeebrugge, Dover, 1918 Postcard photograph by Lambert Weston and Son, Dover, 1918 The burials comprise sailors and marines who were killed during the raid on Zeebrugge on the night of 23 April 1918. The image is inscribed ‘We are standing where the x is’. The 'we' is referring to Dover Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, 1918. From a collection of 21 photographs relating to the service of Nellie Irene Ellingham, Mrs Giles, with the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, 1918 and Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1939-1940, as well as reunions of Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps veterans from 1930s to the 1960s.
Campaigns
World War One, Home Front (1914-1918)
Events
Zeebrugge Raid, 1918 (World War One, War at Sea 1914-1918)
Associated collection
