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LUSITANIA Autograph letter signed ("Walter R. Storch") to the sister of Mary Nichol ("Dear Madam"), giving a long and detailed account of her last moments on the Lusitania, torpedoed by a German u-boat on 7th May 1915, 21 Carpolme Road, Forest Hill, London, S.E., 21 June 1915
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'SHE SLIGHTLY MOVED HER ARMS AS IF IN FAREWELL & I THEN KNEW SHE WAS DEAD'. Walter Reinhold Storch spares no detail in recounting the death of a fellow passenger on the Lusitania to her grieving sister in Scotland. He is clearly upset and traumatised by what he has seen and vividly describes her last moments and the confusion and panic of the other passengers as the lifeboat taking them to safety sprung a leak and capsized.
Mary Nichol, a shop assistant from Dumfries, was returning home as a second class passenger on the Lusitania after visiting her two sisters in Chicago. A total of 1,196 passengers and crew were killed in the tragedy. Mary's body was never found.





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