#Lusitania’s #ArmenianGenocide connection #Lusitania100 #ArmenianGenocide100 #1915

Armenian majorities in the Ottoman Empire are shown in teal in the center of the map. From Wikimedia Commons. 24 April 2015 marks the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, where an estimated 800,000 to 1.5 million Armenians were killed under Ottoman rule. I don’t claim to be an expert in this field, so I’ll leave the …

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Mr. Stephen McNulty

Stephen McNulty, 27, was an Irish national and British subject from Jonesborough, County Armagh, Ireland. He traveled as a third class passenger aboard Lusitania and was lost when the ship was torpedoed and sunk on 7 May 1915. His father was Bernard McNulty of Flurrybridge, Jonesborough. McNulty was lost in the Lusitania sinking, and his …

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Mr. Robert Anderson Mackenzie

Robert Mackenzie, 40, was a fish and poultry merchant from Dublin, Ireland, traveling third class aboard Lusitania. He was in his cabin when the ship was torpedoed. He saw many lifeboats swamp and helped load some lifeboats. The lifeboat he escaped in matches the description of lifeboat 15. Mackenzie survived the Lusitania sinking but was killed …

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Mr. Thomas McAfee

Thomas McAfee, 28, was a third class passenger who resided in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Originally from Belfast, Ireland, he was returning to Ireland aboard Lusitania to see friends and family and enlist in the British Army to fight in World War I. He had put off sailing on an earlier ship to sail with his …

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