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Add MS 82501
- Record Id:
- 040-001988468
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001988287
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000247.0x0002fc
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 82501
- Title:
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Keyes Papers. Vol. cxxix. ZO operational orders, reports, and casualties; 7 April 1918– 23 April 1931, n.d.
- Scope & Content:
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Keyes Papers. Vol. cxxix. ZO operational orders, reports, and casualties; 7 April 1918– 23 April 1931, n.d.
Contents:
1. Memorandum on the object of the operation, issued by Keyes ‘to all Ranks concerned’; 7 April 1918.
2. Operational orders; [April 1918]. Contains orders for fleet movements, a timetable for the operation, orders for smoke-screening, instructions on reporting wind speed and direction, a meteorological report, a summary of vessels in the main force, and orders on long-range and aerial bombardment of Zeebrugge in the hours ahead of the fleet reaching Zeebrugge and Ostend.
3. Texts of telegrams reporting progress of the operation; 23 April 1918.
4. Operation ZO reports; 24 April – 16 June 1918. Partly printed. Contains Keyes’s draft official report on the operation to the Admiralty; Admiralty minutes re. publication of the report; details of German U-boat usage of the Dover Straits in 1918; and reports from individual vessels involved in the raid.
5. Lists of seamen killed, injured, or missing; 24 April – 9 March 1918.
6. Texts of congratulatory telegrams, including telegrams received on the 13th anniversary; 23 April 1918 – 23 April 1931, n.d. Partly printed.
7. Intelligence reports on the outcome of Operation ZO; 24 April – 10 May 1918.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Europeana Collections 1914-1918 - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001988287
036-001988373
037-001988459
040-001988468 - Is part of:
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Add MS 82501 : Keyes Papers. Vol. cxxix. ZO operational orders, reports, and casualties; 7 April 1918– 23 April 1931, n.d. - Hierarchy:
- 032-001988287[0004]/036-001988373[0009]/037-001988459[0003]/040-001988468
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 82373-82578
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1918
- End Date:
- 1931
- Date Range:
- 1918-1931
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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