where we were able to view the special horrors of war and pray that one day war exhibition on the Dover Patrol and the will be a part of history but not part of the Zeebrugge raid. present or the future. After 83 years it is good that Dover (and Footnote: I f there is anyone not aware of Zeebrugge, where a similar parade and the details of the Zeebrugge raid, Newsletter commemorative service took place the 38 included a report of the talk to the Society previous weekend) still remembers those hy Donald Sykes about the raid. brave servicemen and can reflect on the Photographs by Derek Leach. ............................................ The......................................................... DOVER PATROL & ZEEBRUGGE RAID ............................. = Exhibition — ....................= Reported by Derek Leach visited the Dover Museum exhibition Tipperary), poems, models o f ships and a on 1st June during half term week when non-stop video film o f the Zeebrugge Raid. I Ithe Museum was holding a Family Day. was particularly impressed by an excellent It was crowded with families and groups of model of Zeebrugge Harbour showing the Brownies with Museum staff at full stretch positions o f the British ships, the actual answering their many questions. wooden memorial to the Trawler and The story o f the Dover Patrol during the Minesweeping Patrol containing 300 names First World War will be familiar to Dover thought to have come from Old St. James' Society members but this exhibition helps Church after it was damaged during the to take the mind back almost a century to Second World War, a first-hand account of those momentous years for Dover, the the raid from the actual diary of a leading British Navy and the country. Beginning as seaman, a Dover Freeman's Casket made in a very small naval unit, the Dover Patrol 1919 for Lloyd George from decking and grew to be one of the most important and fittings of HMS Vindictive that played a famous of the war with its key roles of leading role in the raid, Vindictive's protecting Channel shipping and supply grappling iron recently moved from the Sea routes (both to and from France as well as Front on its way to a new location and a the essential convoys through the Straits), fine portrait o f Sir Roger Keyes, the Vice- chasing submarines, manning the mine Admiral in command of the Dover Patrol and net barrage across the Channel, and the Zeebrugge Raid. bringing back wounded soldiers, The exhibition also included a section bombarding German positions in Belgium on Dover itself during the First World War and culminating in 1918 with the but, as I am booked to give a talk to the Zeebrugge Raid, perhaps the most famous Society on that subject later in 2002, I shall raid in British naval history which is still refrain from going into any detail. commemorated every year in Dover on its In all this was an excellent effort by anniversary, St. George's Day. Museum staff to make today's Dovorians The exhibition was an interesting and more aware of the role Dover and the Dover varied mixture including paintings, Patrol played during the First World War, photographs, artefacts (including an The exhibition is on until 9 September, so if incendiary bomb), posters, permits, you haven't seen it yet, do go along. medals, sheet music (A Long Way to.