Johan Pitka
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Johan Pitka VR I/1, GCMG (1872 – disappeared 1944) was a Rear Admiral and Commander of the Estonian Navy 1918–1919.
From 1924 to 1930 he lived in Canada.
In 1937 he was a member of the National Constituent Assembly.
He disappeared during Soviet invasion of Estonia in 1944 after trying to organize a last ditch defense against the advancing Red Army. The circumstances of his death remain unknown. Several stories relate his death either to a battle against a Soviet tank group or perishing on the stormy Baltic Sea when trying to make his way to Sweden aboard one of the last small boats fleeing the country (1).
References
1. Voldemar Pinn. Admiral Pitka elu ja surm: raamat mehest, kel Eestimaal kaheksa hauda. Tartu 1993.
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