#AnzacDay: Australians and New Zealanders aboard #Lusitania #Anzac100 #LestWeForget #Lusitania100

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 …

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Mrs. Joseph Cochrane Macky (Mary Birrell)

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 …

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Mr. Joseph Cochrane Macky

Joseph Macky (1855 – 1915), 60, was a British subject from Devonport, New Zealand (a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand) traveling second cabin aboard Lusitania with his wife, Mary. Both Joseph and Mary 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 with …

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Master John Coughlin, Jr.

John Coughlin, Jr. (1912 ? – 1980), 3, was an American citizen and son of John and Katherine Coughlin, and brother of Margaret and Jeremiah Bernard Coughlin. The senior Coughlin and his daughter, Margaret, were lost. Katherine and the sons survived. John Coughlin, Jr. was born in Butte, Montana, United States, where his parent were …

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