NAM.1999-11-102-21

‘Bruges. Where Capt, Fryatt was shot, + memorials to civilians killed by German. Sep. 1923’. One of 26 glass lantern slides of war cemeteries, memorials and scenes of destruction wrought during World War One, taken in Belgium, 1923. Captain Fryatt of the SS Brussels was captured, court martialled and shot by the Germans for attempting to ram a U-boat in 1915. Associated with World War One, Western Front and War at Sea (1914-1918).

World War One, War at Sea (1914-1918), World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)