History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
Paul Bretherton (1912 – 1980), 3, was traveling to England aboard Lusitania with his sister Elizabeth “Betty” and mother Norah to see their grandparents. Norah, who was also pregnant at the time, and her children traveled in second cabin. Norah, Paul, and the unborn child survived the sinking. Betty did not. Paul was born in 1912 in southern California, as his mother …
James Sydney Arter, 33, known to friends as Sydney, was returning to England on the Lusitania for vacation. He survived the sinking. For the past five years Arter was engaged on rubber plantations in the Federated Malay States (British Malaya, present-day Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei). Arter had arrived in the United States from Malaya on 23 …
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