The First World War

[paulhuk]

Originally Posted by Ennath

June 23 – July 8, 1905
War at Sea The steamer Brussels is captured by the Germans. Its commander, Captain Fryatt, had, on March 28, 1915, charged a U-Boat, forcing it to dive and thus escaping. The Germans consider this a hostile act by a non-combatant and now put Fryatt on trial before a military tribunal as a franc tireur. He is convicted and promptly shot. The execution is widely condemned in the neutral press. For the British, Fryatt is another victim of German atrocities.

I remember being astonished by the case of Captain Charles Algernon Fryatt when I first heard about it approx 15 years ago.

Compare with Edith Cavell, of whom I had heard and read much, he is a rather forgotten figure.

After the war his body was ceremoniously returned to England and received a funeral service at St Paul's Cathedral.

There is a memorial at Liverpool St. station.

Paul