History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
Ruth Wordsworth, 37, was returning to England aboard Lusitania with her brother Osmund to see their parents in Salisbury, England. Osmund was returning to England to enlist in the British Army. Both brother and sister survived the Lusitania sinking but did not know each other’s fate until they reunited in Ireland. She survived by clinging …
Osmund Wordsworth, 27, was returning to England on the Lusitania to enlist in the British Army. He was traveling with his sister Ruth. During the last minutes of the sinking, he gave his lifebelt to someone else. Even without his lifebelt, Wordsworth managed to escape the wreck and survive. Ruth also survived. Wordsworth was born 17 May …
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