Lieutenant James Dunsmuir, Jr. (1894 – 1915), 21, was son of Canadian industrialist and politician James Dunsmuir. Dunsmuir held a commission in the Canadian Mounted Rifles, and was on board Lusitania in May 1915 to go to war. Dunsmuir was lost when the Lusitania was torpedoed by the German submarine U-20 on 7 May [...]
Harold Mayne Daly (1880 – 1965), 35, a British subject from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, was the son of Thomas Mayne Daly. Harold was going to England to deliver the Dominion Government ballot boxes. On board the Lusitania, he was assigned cabin D-4. His friends on board included Margaret, Lady Mackworth and Norman Ratcliff.
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Florence Padley, née Fry (c. 1892 – 1978), 23, was born in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. In 1914, she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Florence was an artist who loved painting the sea. Her husband, Charles, was a banker. In the spring of 1915, Florence was returning to Liverpool aboard Lusitania to have [...]
Norman Stones, 29, was a professional vocalist by trade, and a poultry and fruit farmer in Texada Island, British Columbia, Canada. Hoehling and Hoehling writes that Stones was a veteran of General Pershing’s expedition after Pancho Villa on the Mexican border. Stones was traveling on Lusitania with his wife, Hilda Mary. Norman going to England [...]
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