Reverend David Loynd

Reverend David Loynd, 51, was traveling aboard Lusitania with his wife, Alice.  Husband and wife were lost after the got into a lifeboat that spilled as it was lowering. Bodies of both husband and wife were recovered. Loynd was born on 12 November 1862 at 157 Park Street in Bolton, England.  His father William was …

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Mr. John Moore

John Moore, 24, was traveling aboard Lusitania with his sister Jeanette Mitchell, her husband Walter Dawson Mitchell, and the Mitchells’ son, also named Walter Dawson.  John and Jeanette were saved, but both Walter and the baby were lost in the sinking. John was from Ballylesson, County Down, Ireland and was one of six children.  Two of his …

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Dr. Daniel Virgil Moore

Dr. Daniel Moore, 36, of Yankton, South Dakota, United States, was a surgeon by profession.  He was one of a party of American surgeons who had volunteered their services to the British War Office.  Moore recalled Lusitania zigzagging some time before the ship was torpedoed.  The lifeboat he entered, #14, as Lusitania was sinking was …

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