Lieutenant-Commander George Nicholson Bradford RN (posthumous VC)

Commander of the Naval storming party on the ferry Iris. When Iris came alongside the Mole she had difficulty placing her the parapet anchors. Waiting his opportunity he jumped with the anchor on to the Mole and secured it. Immediately after hooking on the parapet anchor he was riddled with bullets and fell into the sea between the Mole and the ship. His body was washed up a few days later. He was aged 31.

He was a superb athlete, cricketer and outstanding boxer. He became the officers’ welterweight champion and twice reached the finals of the army and navy officers’ championships.

His brother Roland who was killed in action in 1917 was also awarded the VC. They were the only VC brothers of WW1.

George Bradford's VC medal is on display at the Imperial War Museum in London.

Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Harrison RN (posthumous VC)

He was command of the Naval storming party from the Vindictive. Before coming alongside the Mole he was struck on the head shell fragment which broke his jaw and knocked unconscious. When he recovered he climbed onto the Mole and took command of his party and led them in an attack. He was killed aged 32 at the head of his men, all of whom were either killed or wounded. His body was never recovered.

Along with three other Royal Navy officers and one mechanic who were missing in action on the Zeebrugge raid he is commemorated on the Zeebrugge Memorial at the Zeebrugge Churchyard. He is also commemorated by a brass plaque mounted in the Warrior Chapel at St Mary's Wimbledon.

He is the only England rugby union international to have been awarded the VC.

His family donated his VC medal to the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, where it is on public display.

Lieutenant-Commander Percy Thompson Dean RNVR

Commander of Motor Launch 282 rescued over 100 members of the crews of the blockships under a constant and deadly fire from machine and heavy guns at point blank range. Whilst withdrawing from the canal he returned and rescued an officer from the water and handled his boat as if in a practice drill.

In 1918 he was elected in as MP for Blackburn serving until the 1922. He was chairman of the family slate quarry company and died in London in 1939 aged 62.

His VC is on display at the Imperial War Museum, London.

Lieutenant Richard Douglas Sandford RN

Commander of Submarine C3 which he skilfully placed between the piles of the viaduct which connected the Mole with the shore, before laying his fuse and abandoning her. He refused to use the gyro steering which would have enabled him and his crew to abandon the submarine at a safe distance, but preferred to make sure that his mission would be successful.

Of all the VCs awarded for the operations at Zeebrugge and Ostend, his was the most approved. When his VC was published it was said to have 'snowed telegrams' on his family. He died of typhoid on the 23 November 1918 aged 27. His Memorials are at Eston Cemetery, Yorkshire and Exeter Cathedral.

His VC medal is displayed at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.

Able Seaman Albert McKenzie (VC awarded by ballot)

He was a member of the seaman storming party and landed on the mole with his machine-gun and killed several of the enemy running from a shelter to a destroyer alongside the mole before being severely wounded.

He was selected by the men of the Vindictive, Iris and Daffodil and of the naval assaulting force to receive the Victoria Cross.

Having almost recovered from his wounds he caught the Spanish flu and died at Chatham Hospital aged just 20.

In 2015 a memorial was erected in his honour on Tower Bridge Road in London.

The McKenzie family have donated Albert's VC medal to be put on display at the Imperial War Museum in London.

Captain Edward Bamford DSO Royal Marines (VC awarded by ballot)

Edward Bamford landed on the mole from Vindictive with three platoons of Royal Marines. Under heavy fire he led an assault on a German battery. He was selected to be awarded the VC by a ballot the Royal Marine officers who took part in the Raid.

He had also been awarded the DSO for his gallantry at the Battle of Jutland where he commanded the Royal Marine detachment aboard HMS Chester.

In 1928 he was the Small Arms Instructor in Hong Kong. During a visit to Weihaiwei in Northern China he became ill and required urgent hospital treatment. He was taken aboard HMS Cumberland bound for Hong Kong, but on the 30th September off the coast near Shanghai, Bamford on the he died, aged 41. He was buried in the Bubbling Well Cemetery in Shanghai, now known as Jing'an Park.

Memorials to Edward Bamford are in the Depot Church in Deal and there was a Bamford House in the RM Barrack at Eastney. There is also a plaque in his memory in Zeebrugge.

His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Marines Museum in Portsmouth.

Sergeant Norman Augustus Finch Royal Marines (VC awarded by ballot)

He was second in command of the Lewis guns in the foretop of Vindictive. During one period the Vindictive sustained hits every few seconds. Sergeant Finch kept harassing the enemy entrenched on the Mole until hit by two heavy shells when he was wounded and all his colleagues were killed.

He retired from the Royal Marines in 1919 but returned for Home service during WW2.

He was appointed Divisional Sergeant-Major of HM Bodyguard of The Yeomen of the Guard (the Beefeaters) in 1964. He died in Portsmouth on 15 March 1966 aged 75.

His VC medal is on display at the Royal Marines Museum in Portsmouth.