42 – The last fatalities of WWI

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

22nd June 1919

26th June 1919

A 9th sailor was shot shortly after midnight on the night of 23/24th June.
He died on 29th June 1919

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.