Zeebrugge Raid 100th Anniversary ahead of Anzac Day 2018

Updated April 17 2018 - 8:59pm, first published 8:30pm
Brothers in arms: Ballarat siblings Oliver Newland and able seaman Leopold Newland photographed before World War I. Oliver fought first at Gallipoli and then at Flanders, while Leopold was engaged in the Zeebrugee Raid.
Brothers in arms: Ballarat siblings Oliver Newland and able seaman Leopold Newland photographed before World War I. Oliver fought first at Gallipoli and then at Flanders, while Leopold was engaged in the Zeebrugee Raid.

A Ballarat naval officer thrust into hand-to-hand combat in Belgium will be remembered this weekend. 

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