History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
Frederick Tyers was a British subject and friend of Arthur Jackson Mitchell. Both of them were from Nottinghamshire, England. Tyers was lost in the Lusitania disaster, but his body was recovered and buried, #17. Arthur Jackson Mitchell saw Tyers picked up from the sea, but Tyers did not survive. Tyers’ parents were comforted that he …
Laura Martin, 56, was born Laura Truman and from Ilkeston, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom. She married Albert Martin. They moved to New Philadelphia, Ohio, United States in early 1914, but Albert died that August. Now widowed, Laura decided to return home. She took passage on the Lusitania. She survived and submitted this account to the …
Image courtesy Small Town, Big War. Hucknall 1914 – 1918. Queenie Benjamin, 30, was from Newark, Nottinghamshire, England returning home from either Roland, Oklahoma or Roland Park, Maryland, United States, aboard the Lusitania. The following is her account from the Newark Advertiser & South Notts Gazette, 12 May 1915. I had just gone to my …
Friedrich August Schwarte, 44, was a British national listed as living in New York City, New York, United States. His ticket aboard Lusitania was number 46122, and he stayed in cabin A-11. He survived the Lusitania sinking and was treated at a Queenstown hospital in Ireland before going to the Queen’s Hotel. He had previously …
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