Bringing the Body of the Late Captain Charles Fryatt from Belgium to England . The lying in State at the Provincial Government Building , Bruges . The Burgomaster is seen standing beside the Catafalque . Captain Charles Algernon Fryatt ( 1872 - 27 July 1916 ) was the Master of the Great Eastern Railways merchant steamship SS Brussels who was captured and executed in 1916 during the First World War by the Germans after he used his ship in an attempt to ram a U-Boat. 5 July 1919