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Beatrice Audrey Blackburne

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Beatrice Audrey Blackburne

Birth
Liverpool, Metropolitan Borough of Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Death
10 Oct 1918 (aged 11)
At Sea
Burial
Buried or Lost at Sea Add to Map
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Beatrice Audrey Blackburne.

This is a Cenotaph Memorial.
Her body was not recovered, but she is named on the headstone on the grave of her father and brother.

Her birth was registered in the quarter ended September 1907, in Toxteth Park district of Liverpool.

She was a civilian passenger, travelling with her family on board R.M.S. Leinster which was sunk by torpedoes in the Irish Sea, 16 miles east of Dublin, shortly before 10am on the morning of 10th October 1918, on its outbound journey of 100km [68 miles] from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire], Dublin, to Holyhead, Anglesey, North Wales.

Her name is included in
R.M.S. Leinster Casualties A - H

Her father, brother, and her governess Rose De Pury, also drowned in the sinking. Her mother was the only one of the family to survive.

There were subsequent reports that after the torpedoes struck, her father was seen alive in the sea with a child on his back, who was believed to be Beatrice.
Her body was never recovered.

Her name is recorded on the headstone of the grave of her father and brother in Kilmainham, Dublin.
Beatrice Audrey Blackburne.

This is a Cenotaph Memorial.
Her body was not recovered, but she is named on the headstone on the grave of her father and brother.

Her birth was registered in the quarter ended September 1907, in Toxteth Park district of Liverpool.

She was a civilian passenger, travelling with her family on board R.M.S. Leinster which was sunk by torpedoes in the Irish Sea, 16 miles east of Dublin, shortly before 10am on the morning of 10th October 1918, on its outbound journey of 100km [68 miles] from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire], Dublin, to Holyhead, Anglesey, North Wales.

Her name is included in
R.M.S. Leinster Casualties A - H

Her father, brother, and her governess Rose De Pury, also drowned in the sinking. Her mother was the only one of the family to survive.

There were subsequent reports that after the torpedoes struck, her father was seen alive in the sea with a child on his back, who was believed to be Beatrice.
Her body was never recovered.

Her name is recorded on the headstone of the grave of her father and brother in Kilmainham, Dublin.


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