Mr. Albert Thompson

Albert Thompson
Image credit: Steven Thompson

Albert Thompson, 37, was a British national from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  was traveling aboard Lusitania with his friend William Dale. Both men lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and were Irish. Both Thompson and Dale were lost in the Lusitania disaster. Thompson was reported to be an invalid. Thompson was originally from Clogher, County Antrim. He was reported as being a Donacloney man.

Thompson’s body was recovered on Tuesday, 11 May 1915, as body #141.  His body was found floating with wreckage near the coast.  Per the list of interments at Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland, Albert Thompson was body #141, Common grave B.

Contributor:
Senan Molony, Ireland
Judith Tavares
Steven Thompson (great-great nephew of Albert Thompson)

References:
Molony, Senan. Lusitania: An Irish Tragedy, pgs. 29, 74. Mercier Press, 2004.

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