History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
Remembrance Poppy: image use courtesy http://ww100.govt.nz/ 25 April is Anzac Day, honoring the soldiers and veterans of Australia and New Zealand. The commemorations had their start with the Gallipoli Campaign, where the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) were part of the British forces to fighting to secure the Dardanelles for the Allies and capture …
James Sikking (1891 – 1927), 24, was a British subject and boatswain’s mate in the deck crew of the RMS Lusitania on that ship’s final voyage. When the ship was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-20 on 7 May 1915, Sikking survived. Sikking died of injuries related to a fall in Australia in …
Mary Macky, 56, was a British subject from Devonport, New Zealand (a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand) traveling second cabin aboard Lusitania with her husband, Joseph. Both Mary and Joseph were lost in the Lusitania sinking. Mary is reported to have given up her seat in a lifeboat to a younger woman and went down …
James McCubbin Purser Lost [No Picture Provided] Born James Alexander McCubbin 1852 St. Peters, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Died 7 May 1915 (age 62) RMS Lusitania At sea Age on Lusitania 62 Body 91 Interred Toxteth Park Cemetery Church of England Section A, Grave 5 Liverpool, England Citizenship British (English) Residence Bootle, Liverpool, Lancashire, …
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