Mr. Maximilian M. Schwarcz

…first!” Jenkins continued to say that Schwarcz was “certainly one of the whitest and finest men it has been my lot to meet. I shall mourn his death very deeply.” Schwarcz was lost in the Lusitania disaster and his body was not recovered. Schwarcz died at the peak of his fame in his profession. His obituary was published in the Saturday, 22 May 1915 New York Times, on page 11. The following was a resolution passed by the Executive Board of the Cloa…

Miss Dorothy Douglas Braithwaite

…from Montréal, Québec, Canada was on the Lusitania to see her sisters in London, who had been widowed on the same day. She was in the saloon (first class) lounge and music room when the torpedo hit. She went to the port side boat deck, where she was separated from Frederick Orr-Lewis, Marguerite, Lady Allan, her daughters Gwen and Anna, and Robert Holt. Dorothy was lost in the Lusitania disaster. Her body, if recovered, was not identified. Life a…

Mrs. Charles Alfred Learoyd (Mabel Kate Symonds)

…do, what boat we should go to, whether we should wait, and we decided to wait for a few minutes. We felt quite calm about it. . . . 1073 (Solicitor-General): Then I want you to come to your own boat, which I think was the third. Can you describe where abouts it was. It was on the starboard side, was it not? (Mabel Learoyd): Yes; it was on the starboard side, somewhere about amidships; more than that I cannot say. 1074 (Solicitor-General): What hap…

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