the last surviving crew member of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee that was scuttled in the River Plate at the beginning of World War II, has passed away and was buried Saturday in Montevideo.

Donnie MacRae was captured during the Battle of St Valery in France in 1940 (Representational) A soldier, who died as a German prisoner of war in 1941, was buried ... during World War II and ...

The event remains one of the few instances where battleships single-handedly defeated an aircraft carrier in World War II, leading to significant controversy and historical debate. How German ...

Scottish soldier Donnie MacRae died as a German prisoner of war during World War Two - but it was not until almost 80 years later that his family discovered he had been buried without his brain.