History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…eter Kelly and a collaboration with the Merseyside Maritime Museum. Education and China Years Hugh Robert Johnston was born on 19 January 1894 in Litherland near Liverpool, Lancashire, England, the son of John and Eliza Johnston. The family home was at 29, Blisworth Street, Litherland, Lancashire. He was educated at St. Philip’s Church of England School, Litherland, and then entered the Royal Navy as a boy seaman, serving on the China Station on t…
…ie (born 1897) who also served in the 116th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He died on August 21st, 1920 in Hamilton of sickness related to his wartime experience. All three sons are buried in Grove Cemetery in Dundas, Ontario. Robinson Pirie had worked at Oak Hall, a retail clothing store, on Toronto’s King Street in the 1890s and was a one time manager. Robinson died on 12 July 1920. Lusitania Pirie’s experiences of the Lusitania…
…ssenger An editorial mentioning the Lusitania disaster and sinking was posted in the Washington Times this week. The views expressed in the editorial do not necessarily mirror my own, but I thought that those interested could check it out: The Lusitania 98 years later: How Wilson sank a nation And thank all of you for your comments and support on the painting I posted a few days ago. Today I’m including a pencil and ink sketch of the Lusitania sin…
…ppeared on the far horizon, east, I think. but it seems they never saw us, and it passed away; first one and then a second. Then at last came the smoke of the torpedo-boats, pushing from Queenstown. The second one took us off, and then plied round and round picking up other derelicts, many in far worse case than ourselves. For though the water at first was not so cold as I expected, it must have been awful to have been in it all the time, as many…
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