Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter NPG x166392

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Walter Stoneman

Carpenter entered the Navy in 1897 and saw active service in Crete and during the Chinese Boxer uprising in 1900. During World War One, on 22/23 April 1918, he was in command of HMS Vindictive which was to land a force of two hundred Royal Marines on the mole at Zeebrugge, Belgium at the start of the Zeebrugge Raid designed to block the vital strategic port of Bruges. According to reports, Carpenter's 'great bravery when the ship came under heavy fire, did much to encourage... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.