History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
John Hayes, 31, was junior fifth engineer aboard Lusitania’s final voyage. He perished in the sinking. Hayes married Jeanette Purves on 14 August 1914, less than a year before he lost his life in the Lusitania sinking. They settled in the Bootle neighborhood of Liverpool, England. Jeanette was pregnant at the time Hayes left on …
Charles Gouder, image courtesy British National Archives/Michael Poirier. Charles Gouder (1889 – 1970), 26, was a waiter aboard the Lusitania‘s last voyage. He survived. Gouder was born on 5 March 1889 in Malta, then a British territory. The final trip of the Lusitania was his first aboard that ship as a waiter. He recalled the …
Jeanie McKinnon, née Beith (1887 – 1915), 27, was a British subject originally from Glasgow, Scotland but living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as of 1915. Jeanie was returning to Britain aboard Lusitania and was lost when the ship was torpedoed and sunk on 7 May 1915. Jane Gilmour Beith, always known as ‘Jeanie’, was born …
William Hendry was a British subject who was also first waiter aboard the Lusitania‘s last voyage. Hendry survived the sinking. He later corresponded with the Mary Garry, the mother of Dr. Joseph Garry who was lost in the disaster. Related pages Letter from Mary Garry concerning Drs. Joseph Garry and James McDermott, Jane Hogan and …
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