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
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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