John Thomson (1900 – 1915), 15, was a British subject and Scottish national serving as an ordinary seaman for the deck department of the Lusitania on the ship's final voyage. Thomson was killed when the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk on 7 May 1915, one of the youngest crew members to be lost in the disaster. Thomson's body was recovered, number 196, and buried in Common Grave B of the Old Church Cemetery in Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland.
John Thomson (1900 – 1915), 15, was a British subject and Scottish national serving as an ordinary seaman for the deck department of the Lusitania on the ship's final voyage. Thomson was killed when the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk on 7 May 1915, one of the youngest crew members to be lost in the disaster. Thomson's body was recovered, number 196, and buried in Common Grave B of the Old Church Cemetery in Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland.
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SON OF JOHN AND MARY JANE THOMSON, OF 59, RUSSELL RD., BIRKENHEAD. BORN AT ANNAN, DUMFRIES.
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