WW1 vintage postcard of Captain Fryatt interest - SS Brussels

Postally unused, this Belgian card commemorates the memorial to the capture of the civilian Captain Fryatt of the Great Eastern Railway Company shipping line who was executed by the Germans. Not encountered this one before. The word ship on pencil to the reverse.

Charles Algernon Fryatt (1872 – 1916) was a British merchant mariner who was executed by the Germans for attempting to ram a U-boat ( U-33 ) in 1915. When his ship, the ' SS Brussels ', was captured off the Netherlands in 1916, he was court-martialled and sentenced to death ( on the order of the Kaiser ) although he was a civilian non-combatant. International outrage followed his execution near Bruges, Belgium. In 1919, his body was reburied with full honours in the United Kingdom.

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