History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
May Barrett, 25, and her friend Kate McDonnell were returning to Ireland for a holiday aboard RMS Lusitania. Both May and Kate survived the sinking. May Barrett was of 120 Barrack Street, Cork City, Ireland. In April 1911, May and Kate McDonnell emigrated to the United States on the White Star Liner Majestic. Their address in New York …
James Sydney Arter, 33, known to friends as Sydney, was returning to England on the Lusitania for vacation. He survived the sinking. For the past five years Arter was engaged on rubber plantations in the Federated Malay States (British Malaya, present-day Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei). Arter had arrived in the United States from Malaya on 23 …
Joseph Aiston, 20, was a British national living in Brooklyn, New York, United States, returning to England aboard Lusitania to join the British Army. Aiston survived the sinking. Joseph Aiston was born in Blaydon-on-Tyne, Winlaton parish, County Durham, England, United Kingdom in September 1896, the ninth of eleven children. His records appear on the 1901 …
Ralph Frank Abercromby (1893 – 1915), 21, was a British national living in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. He was returning to England aboard Lusitania to join the British Army. Abercromby was lost in the Lusitania disaster. His body was recovered, #23. Ralph Frank Abercromby was born on 27 August 1893, the son of Douglas Charles …
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