"NAVAL RAID ON ZEEBRUGGE. NEW ZEALANDERS ENGAGED. AUCKLAND MAN WOUNDED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Recd. 12.15 am.) LONDON, May 3. The following New Zealanders participated in the naval raid on Zeebrugge on April 23:- McKnight, Dunedin; Pulsford, McLaughlin, Wellington; McQueen, Payne, McGinley, Alexander, Auckland; Yelverton, Kaikoura; Mewburn, Waimate; Foster, Nilson, Hawke's Bay. All escaped injury except Alexander, who now is in hospital in France. Roy Alexander, who is reported as being wounded in the raid, is a chief motor-mechanic in the Royal Naval Patrol division. He is a son of Mr. T. A. Alexander, of East Tamaki, and formerly of Ramarama. Chief-mechanic Alexander, who was formerly employed by Messrs. A. and T. Burt, of Auckland, left in November, 1916, to join the patrol service, and was promoted to his present rank in, November last." [New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16841, 4 May 1918, Page 7]
"ALEXANDER.—On August 21, 1918, at South End Hospital, England, died of wounds received in Zeebrugge naval raid, Roy Leslie, chief motor mechanic, R.N. Motor Patrol Service, eldest son of T. A. Alexander, East Tamaki, late of Ramarama; aged 21½ years. He ran the straight race, and finished the work allotted him." [New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16942, 30 August 1918, Page 1]
"DIED OF WOUNDS Alexander, Roy Leslie (Chief Motor Mechanic R.N ), August 2lst - T. A.Alexander, East Tamaki and late of Rama Rama [Ramarama], father) Information was yesterday received by Mr T. A Alexander, of East Tamaki and late of Rama Rama, that his eldest son, Roy Leslie Alexander, died on the 21st inst. in a hospital in England from wounds sustained in the Zeebrugge naval raid in April last. The deceased, who was 21 years of age, held the rank of chief motor mechanic in the Royal Navy Motor Patrol Service. Prior to leaving New Zealand towards the end of 1916 on joining the Navy he served as an apprentice to the marine engineering trade with Messrs A. and T. Burt, Ltd." [Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 405, 30 August 1918, Page 2]
