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AFTER THE RAID
The Vindictive
arrived in Dover at 8 o'clock the following morning to great cheering from all the other ships in the harbour. The residents of Dover, including Admiral Keyes wife, reported that during the raid they could hear the guns on the Belgian coast seventy five miles away and that the sound had rattled their windows.
Albert McKenzie and all the other wounded men were carried immediately to a waiting hospital train. One hundred and sixty one men had been killed on the Raid, seventy five of
them by one shell which hit the ferry boat Iris soon after she left the Mole to return to Dover. |
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Royal Marine Alfred Hutchinson talks about Admiral Keyes and the return of the Fleet to Dover |
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Twenty eight other men died of their wounds after the Raid and a further three hundred and eighty three were
wounded. Sixteen men were reported missing and thirteen were taken prisoner, having been left behind on the Mole.The morning after the Raid these prisoners were marched into Zeebrugge past
the sunken block ships. By coincidence Kaiser Wilhelm was staying near Zeebrugge at the time of the Raid and came to see the damage for himself and later spoke to some of the prisoners. |
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Praise ... |
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