Mystery Bullet in Remains of HMAS Sydney II Crewman

One of the unanswered mysteries of WWII, the final fate of the Australian light cruiser Sydney II, has just gotten a bit stranger. As this article states, Australian authorities have finally exhumed the remains of a man assumed to have escaped from the Sydney before she sank. No one seems to know why he would have a bullet from a handgun in his head though.

The accepted story is that in November 1941 the German merchant raider Kormoran on a patrol in the Indian Ocean, lured the more heavily armed Sydney into a point-blank engagement and left the Australian ship burning as she sailed away to the south. The Kormoran herself was so badly damaged that she was scuttled shortly after.

The wreck of the Sydney has never been found and no survivors were located.

Those with a more conspiracy and pulp-fiction bend of mind wonder if in fact the ship didn't sink, but instead was captured by the dreaded Antarctic Space Nazis!