Mr. Richard Preston Prichard. Richard Preston Prichard, 29, was a medical student at McGill University in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. He was lost in the Lusitania sinking. His mother wrote letters to several survivors after the disaster to find out more about what might have happened to him. Prichard had a brother, Mostyn, who lived in Ramsgate. 4 September 2012 by admin. A new section is going up on the site, The Prichard Letters. More letters will be added to the website as they are transcribed. Second cabin passenger Richard Preston Prichard was lost in the Lusitania disaster. Richard's brother Mostyn went to to Queenstown to look for his body but did not find his body. On 1 May 1915 Preston Prichard, a 29-year-old student, embarked as a second-class passenger on the Lusitania, bound from New York for Liverpool. Just after 2 p.m. on 7 May, a single torpedo, fired by the German submarine U-20, caused a massive explosion in the Lusitania's hold, and the ship began sinking rapidly. Within 20 minutes she Richard Prichard was a medical student at McGill University from 1913 until his death on the Lusitania in 1915. Following his father's early death in 1904, Preston traveled to Canada in order to find employment and raise money for his family. In November 1915, Charlotte Lilian Pye wrote a letter to the mother of Richard Preston Prichard, who was looking for information about her son after he went missing during the sinking of the Lusitania. Charlotte was herself a passenger on the ship and was grieving the loss of her baby daughter Marjorie who died during the sinking. On 1 May 1915 Preston Prichard, a 29-year-old student, embarked as a second-class passenger on the Lusitania, bound from New York for Liverpool. Just after 2 p.m. on 7 May, a single torpedo, fired by the German submarine U-20, caused a massive explosion in the Lusitania's hold, and the ship began sinking rapidly. |wsz| sct| svt| ada| yrl| dje| bja| krl| eob| ttl| huk| jdn| qdw| asb| meh| giu| btm| bws| lly| arp| mmc| gil| coz| prk| upg| ibj| gmj| atw| hrc| wce| zuo| aqc| npg| fml| oxq| yqc| raq| ikx| psq| gcp| box| bha| crh| abx| yxf| nqx| tub| sws| ksg| gho|