Mr. Ashley Allan, Third Class Waiter

Ashley Allan (1886 – 1915), 28, was a third class waiter from Bootle, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom, who was lost when the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-20 on 7 May 1915. His body was either not recovered or not identified.

Life

Ashley was born on 28 June 1886 in Bootle (Bootle-cum-Linacre), West Derby, Liverpool, then part of Lancashire County, and christened on 8 August the same year in St. Paul’s Church in the nearby neighborhood of Kirkdale (now a part of Liverpool). His parents were William and Mary Ann Allan (née Gliddon or Gleddon). William was a mariner born about 1841 in Scotland, and Mary Ann was born around 1851 in Lancashire. They had married in early 1873 in Liverpool. In 1901, the Allans lived on St. John’s Road in Bootle. By 1901, the Allans had moved to 99, Berry Street, Bootle (misspelled in the record as “Bury Street”), where they were still living at the time of the Lusitania disaster.

Ashley’s known siblings included William Henry (born 1876), Alexander (born 1877), Ada Morley (born 1879), Albert James (born 1880), Charles (born 1883), Evelyn (born 1888), and an adopted sister, Clera Eva (born around 1910). The family were members of the Church of England.

Ashley Allan served as a crew member on the Cunarder Carmania in 1906 and 1907 and served on the Ivernia in 1911. According to the 1911 census, he was a ship’s steward living in Bootle. Ashley Allan died in the Lusitania disaster.

Allan’s name is among those memorialized at the Tower Hill Memorial in London, England, United Kingdom.

Contributors
Peter Engberg-Klarström, Sweden

References
Engberg-Klarström, Peter. “Allan, Ashley.” Peter’s Lusitania Page. Web. 22 June 2017. <https://lusitaniapage.wordpress.com/2017/06/22/allan-ashley/>. Accessed 19 May 2020. 

“We Remember Ashley Allan.” Lives of the First World War. Imperial War Museums. Web. <https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7678652>. Accessed 20 May 2020.