BEST AND PLUCKIEST IN THE NAVY
SIR ERIC GEDDES'S TRIBUTE TO THE MINELAYERS, . London, January 9. Sir Eric Geddes (formerly First Lord of the Admiralty), in a speech to wounded soldiers at Oatlands Park, Surrey, described the men of tho Twentieth Minelaying Flotilla as aniong tho best and pluckiest in the Navy. They proceeded nightly through tjie German minefields, for thirty miles off Heligoland to disooyer the channels through ■which the raiders passed, and to lay mines across them. Upwards of & hundred German boats, .during the first half-year of 1918 were caught in these trap-mines. Six German .outpost boats leaving the Bight on one occasion noticed'four vessels of the flotilla entering. Our by a subterfuge got inside and laid mines,- and on the way home they "mopped up" all six of tho Germans, and the crejvs-'wero taken prisoners. The barrage of mines across the English Channel below Ostend trapped seventeen submarines in one month. —Atfs.-N.Z. Gable. Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 92, 13 January 1919, Page 5
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157BEST AND PLUCKIEST IN THE NAVY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 92, 13 January 1919, Page 5
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