History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
Doris Charles, 21, was the daughter of Joseph Charles of the Musson Book Company. Joseph was taking Doris overseas as a precaution. Doris had been in a serious relationship with a man named Elliot Lawler, and her parents thought that Doris was too young to be married. Doris and her father survived the Lusitania disaster, …
Robert Cairns, 49, was a British citizen, an American director of an Anglo-American brewery. He was the director of six companies. Cairns paid passage for a saloon class ticket to Purser James McCubbin upon boarding, therefore his name and cabin number did not show up on initial passenger list published in the newspaper accounts. After Lusitania was …
image credit: Paul Latimer/Halifax Evening Mail, 11 May 1915. Alfred Clarke, 55, owned A. R. Clarke and Co. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which made leather linings, vests, and moccasins. He was a British subject, married, and had a son and daughter. On the last voyage of the Lusitania, his ticket was 13105 and he stayed in …
Reverend Charles Cowley Clarke, 64, was of the diocese of Clifton near Brighton, England. When purchasing his ticket for Lusitania, Clarke asked if there was any danger and was told that there was none. Clarke’s ticket was 46062 and his cabin was D-12. Clarke became friendly with Staff Captain Anderson who told him early in …
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