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Kathleen Stuart Baines

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Kathleen Stuart Baines

Birth
Kirkstall, Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Death
18 Oct 1918 (aged 48–49)
At Sea
Burial
Harold's Cross, County Dublin, Ireland Add to Map
Plot
Section C.5, Wardell family plot
Memorial ID
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Kathleen Stuart Baines

The birth of Kathleen Stuart Baines was registered in Kirkstall, West Yorkshire, in the quarter ended March 1869.

She was a civilian passenger 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.

Kathleen had been in Ireland to visit relatives, and was returning home to Leeds.
She survived the incident and was rescued. She went to the home of William Wakefield and his wife Frances Wakefield (née Bennett), on Rathgar Road to recover, but she died of Pneumonia a week later on 18 October 1918

Cemetery records indicate that she was buried within the Wardell family plot, to the left of the monument to
John Wardell
Her connection to this family is not known.

Her name is recorded in
R.M.S. Leinster Casualties A - H
Kathleen Stuart Baines

The birth of Kathleen Stuart Baines was registered in Kirkstall, West Yorkshire, in the quarter ended March 1869.

She was a civilian passenger 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.

Kathleen had been in Ireland to visit relatives, and was returning home to Leeds.
She survived the incident and was rescued. She went to the home of William Wakefield and his wife Frances Wakefield (née Bennett), on Rathgar Road to recover, but she died of Pneumonia a week later on 18 October 1918

Cemetery records indicate that she was buried within the Wardell family plot, to the left of the monument to
John Wardell
Her connection to this family is not known.

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

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