High Seas Fleet Surrender 42 – The last fatalities of WWI
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Sinking of the German Fleet – Scapa Flow on Saturday 21 June 1919. Painting by Bernard Gribble.
In the struggle to stop the Germans from abandoning their ships, 8 were killed and 21 wounded. The dead were buried at Lyness graveyard.
21st June 1919
| Karl Bauer | stoker | SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm |
| Friedrich Beike | mate | V126 |
| Hermann Dittmann | sailor | SMS Markgraf |
| Hans Hesse | mate | SMS Bayern |
| Wilhelm Markgraf | machinist | V126 |
| Walter Schumann | Lieutenant-commander | SMS Markgraf |
22nd June 1919
| Karl Funk | stoker | V127 |
26th June 1919
| Gustav Pankrath | Senior machinist | V126 |
A 9th sailor was shot shortly after midnight on the night of 23/24th June.
He died on 29th June 1919
| Kuno Evertsberg | machinist | SMS Frankfurt |
Evertsberg was shot and killed while being held as a prisoner on HMS Resolution in Scapa Flow by a British sailor, who had lost relatives in the war.
He lay on top of a turret with a rifle for a period of two hours waiting for the prisoners to be marched down the deck, and shot Evertsberg, the first one who came along.
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