History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…r grandparents in Worcester. Avis’ grandfather admitted that he had a premonition of the Lusitania‘s torpedoing, as did Marion. He had seen Avis’ lifeboat capsize, but when she resurfaced he said, “Depend on it, that’s our Avis!” Continued friendship and later life Ian and Avis continued to be life-long friends. One day when Avis complained about how boring girls’ books were, Ian promised to write her an adventure story that would be as thrilli…
…tiques dealer Citizenship British Residence Richmond, Surrey (now Greater London), England, United Kingdom Edward Booth-Jones (1876-1915), 39, was a British subject and antiques dealer residing in Richmond, Surrey (now Greater London), England, traveling aboard Lusitania with his wife Millichamp Booth-Jones and their children, Ailsa and Percival. They were also traveling with family friends Alfred and Gladys Smith and their daughter, Dorothy. Both…
…elocated to Paterson, New Jersey, United States, which has a close connection with Macclesfield through the silk industry. Lusitania Agnes’s account of the disaster is detailed through the Macclesfield Courier and Herald of Saturday 15th May 1915: Two Macclesfield Ladies’ Experiences Two of the survivors were Macclesfield ladies named Miss Agnes and Miss Evelyn Norbury Wild, the second and youngest daughters of Mr J. H. Wild, designer and card cut…
…her would bring the United States into the war,” rests mostly on the supposition that men of Churchill’s caliber are simply not capable of screwing up that badly. Room 40 had a rough idea of where the submarines were and knew for certain that the Lusitania was sailing into the danger zone; the Admiralty had 10 days to act to protect fellow British subjects and foreign civilians but did nothing. Therefore, in Beesly’s eyes, no one could be so incom…
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