Peter Crompton

Philadelphia on 16 July 1914

Cobh on 07 May 1915

9 months, 21 days

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Boarded Lusitania as 1st class with his parents Paul and Constance (nee Schwaibe) and siblings Stephen (14) Alberta (12) Catherine (10) Romily (9) John (6). On May 7, 1915, Lusitania was struck by a German torpedo in the Mid-Atlantic ocean. The whole family including their nurse Dorothy Allen perished in the sinking. Peter's body was recovered as well as his two older brothers'.

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