ZEEBRUGGE MEMORIAL
UNVEILED BY MEMBERS OF SUBMARINE C 3.
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS.
(Received 29, 10 a.m.) Brussels, Aug. 28.. in the presence of relativse of thh victims and numerous vsitors.
Guns roared as. headed by a Belgian Zeebrugge memorial was unveiled baud, tin* survivors ami British. Belgian and French officers, proceeded to the mole.
Colonel Straghlanber, the Belgian initiator of the movement, said: “Here the British Navy wrote the noblest page in its history. ’ ’
Four members of tho crew of tho £" unveiled the memorial and received commemorative medals. A A tablet of bronze eight feet high depicts tho scene at the moment of tho explosion, while a female figure arising from the smoke, points to England with her right hand end holds in her left the Victoria Cross awarded to Lieutenant Sandford.— (A.P.A. and “Sun” cable.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 218, 29 August 1927, Page 5
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