Master Robert Kay

Robert Kay, 7, was an American child, from Rhinelander Avenue, Bronx, New York, United States, traveling aboard the Lusitania with his mother Marguerita.  Marguerita was lost in the Lusitania sinking.  Robert was saved. Kay would much later write an account of the sinking, An Earlier Day of Infamy, which stands as the best ‘child’s perspective’ of the disaster yet …

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Mr. Frederick Sheldon Judson

Frederick Judson, 25, was a United States citizen from New York City, New York, United States. Judson survived the Lusitania sinking and was treated at the hospital for contused legs. Contributor: Judith Tavares

Mr. James Harrison

James Harrison, 48, was a British citizen from New York City, New York, United States. Harrison was lost in the Lusitania disaster. His body was recovered, #168, on the night of Monday, 10 May 1915, twenty miles away from where the ship sank. Harrison’s body was identified by the papers on the body. Contributors: Jim …

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Miss Bessie Hare

Bessie Hare, 28, was an Irish national and British subject who lived with her brother Daniel who lived at 204 West 78th Street, New York, New York, United States. She was a Roman Catholic, and she was employed as a house maid. She had another brother who lived on Dublin Road in Tuam, County Galway, …

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