Thanks to Mike Poirier for finding this video.
For those of you on your way to Kinsale, Ireland for this year’s anniversary 101 (and I wish I were!):
On Saturday, 7 May 2016 (today!) at 2pm, the Kinsale History Society is hosting its annual commemoration of the sinking of the Lusitania at the St. Multose Church cemetery, and all are invited. This year, a memorial stone to Margaret Mackenzie Shineman will be unveiled. For the past 101 years, her grave was marked as the “unknown woman victim” because of how quickly she had been buried after her body had been recovered from the wreck site.
Many thanks to Lusitania friends Bronwen Woods and Eric Sauder for making this happen and correcting this long-standing historical error. Bronwen’s husband Richard Woods, son of Lusitania survivor Nancy Wickings-Smith Woods, will speak at the event.
Read the article about the upcoming event in the Irish Examiner.
In Commemoration of 100yrs since the sinking of ‘Lusitania’.
It is believed my mother’s uncle Harry and his son Harry crew members (not named on crew list) were lost at sea on the Lusitania’s return voyage from New York. Family members also believe their uncle was on the previous voyage and brought gifts home from New York, that we still have.