Charles Fryatt
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Charles Algernon Fryatt was a British merchant seaman who was court martialled by the Imperial German Navy for attempting to ram a German U-boat in 1915. When his ship, the SS Brussels, was captured b
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SS Brussels scuttled at Zeebrugge, October 1918
Bruges Town Hall, where Fryatt's court-martial occurred
Notice of execution in German, Dutch and French
The Unknown Warrior
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The Unknown Warrior is an unidentified member of the British Imperial armed forces who died on the Western Front during the First World War. He is interred in a grave at Westminster Abbey, also known
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…Fryatt was one of only three sets of British remains given a state funeral following the end of World War I, the others being the nurse Edith Cavell and The Unknown Warrior. His coffin was landed at Dover, and transported in South Eastern and Chatham Railway PMV No.132 to London. On 8 July 1919, his funeral service was…
The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
The coffin of the Unknown Warrior in state in the Abbey in 1920, before burial.
Burial of The Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, with King George V in attendance, 1920.
A plaque at Victoria Station marking site of the arrival of the coffin on 10 November.