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Stewardess Eliza Kennedy

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Military service

Age: 66
Rank: Stewardess
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Hesperian (Glasgow, Scotland) (124266)
Birth: January 1, 1849 Tranmere, Merseyside, England
Death: September 4, 1915 North Atlantic

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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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She was born under the name Drake.

Daughter of John Dean Drake and Eliza Pate. Wife of Andrew James Kennedy, of Bootle, Lancashire, England. Mother of Lilian Elizabeth Kennedy.

Her name (Kennedy) is also commemorated on a plaque on the wall of an old octagonal bandstand in Veterans Park in Langford, British Columbia.

On 4 September 1915, the Hesperian was en route from Liverpool, England, to Montreal, Quebec, when it was torpedoed at 8:30 a.m. by the U-20 off the coast of Ireland, 85 miles (137 km) southwest of Fastnet Rock, southeast of Ireland in the North Atlantic. The attack resulted in the death of 32 people, as the ship was carrying 653 passengers. Remaining afloat, she was towed 35 miles (56 km) before sinking 130 miles (209 km) off Queenstown, England, on 6 September. This U-20 will sink the Lusitania.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 40 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL London, United Kingdom

THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL stands on the South side of the garden of Trinity Square, a hundred yards East of Mark Lane Station, and just within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and the Liberty of the Tower. It is at the hub of maritime England. Behind it are Trinity House and the offices of the Port of London Authority, and the Thames stretches before it; the wide space of Great Tower Hill, leading down from it to the river, is the traditional forum of merchant seamen and their fellow workers. Lloyd's is on the North, the Custom House and Billingsgate Market are near it on the West, and beyond the Tower, Eastwards, is the long line of the Docks the greatest dock system in the world.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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