Mrs. William Smith (Minnie)

Minnie Smith, 28, was a British subject residing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, traveling third class aboard Lusitania. Minnie was married to Constable William Smith, and at the time of the Lusitania‘s last departure from New York on 1 May 1915, she was pregnant. Minnie and her unborn child were lost when the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-20 on 7 May 1915. Her husband William commented, “Those dirty hounds murdered my wife and her unborn babe. They may get me, but I will wipe out my score first.”

By 12 May, there was no chance that she and her unborn child would be found alive. William Smith resigned from his job and enlisted in British Armed Forces on 13 May 1915. Minnie’s body was eventually recovered, #110, and buried in Common Grave C in the Old Church Cemetery in Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland.

Links of interest

Minnie Smith at Lest We Forget – Encyclopedia Titanica

Contributors
Cliff Barry, UK
Jim Kalafus, USA
Peter Kelly, Ireland
Senan Molony, Ireland
Michael Poirier, USA

References:
Jim Kalafus, Michael Poirier, Cliff Barry and Peter Kelly (2013) “Lest We Forget : The Lusitania.” Gare Maritime. (ref: #10962, accessed 27th April 2015 03:24:39 PM)
URL : http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/lest-we-forget-the-lusitania.html

Molony, Senan. Lusitania: An Irish Tragedy, page 129. Mercier Press, 2004.