Mr. Norman Stones, Second Cabin Passenger
Norman Stones, 29, was a professional vocalist by trade, and a poultry
and fruit farmer in Texada Island, British Columbia, Canada. Hoehling
and Hoehling writes that Stones was a veteran of General Pershing's expedition
after Pancho Villa on the Mexican border. Stones was traveling on
Lusitania with his wife, Hilda Mary. Norman going to England
to join a University Officer's Training Corps. Hilda was returning
to England to see a sick relative.
When Lusitania was sinking, Norman removed the clothing from
his unprotesting wife, in public and broad daylight, until she was in her
stockings. He then strapped her lifebelt to her.
Norman then started tearing the canvas off a nearby collapsible boat,
which should have been done earlier, but no one on the ship had thought
of doing until then. Archie Donald helped him.
Norman and Hilda Stones were carried down with the ship. Norman
survived; Hilda did not.
Contributors:
Jim Kalafus
References:
Hoehling, A.A. and Mary Hoehling. The Last Voyage of the Lusitania.
Madison Books, 1956.
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