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Family at War

Titanic connections to conflicts 1861-1953

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Family at War

This page lists the known war service of Titanic passengers and crew and also their family members' wartime experiences.

American Civil War Spanish-American War Philippine-American War Boer War Russo-Japanese War World War One Irish Civil War World War Two Korean War

American Civil War 1861–1865

Cassebeer, Eleanor (Passenger, Survivor)
Her father was Dr. William Fosdick, born in June 1849 in LaPorte, Indiana to John Strong Fosdick, a Union Army captain during the Civil War.

Crosby, Captain Edward Gifford (Passenger, Victim)
Served in the 1st Regiment Michigan Calvary and survived the American Civil War. 

Drew, Mrs Louisa Thorne (Passenger, Survivor)
Her father, Henry, served in and survived the American Civil War.

Eustis Miss Elizabeth M. (Passenger Survivor)
Her father, William, served in and survived the American Civil War.

Goldschmidt, George (Passenger, Victim)
Served in many regiments during the American Civil War and survived.

Harbeck, William (Passenger, Victim)
His father, John, served in and survived the American Civil War.

Kenyon, Frederick (Passenger, Victim)
His father, Jeremiah, served in and survived the American Civil War; his only sibling, Jeremiah, served and was killed in WW1.

Millet, Francis (Passenger, Victim)
He served like his father in the Massachusetts Regiment in the American Civil War, and both survived. 


Spanish-American War 1898

Astor, Colonel John Jacob IV (Passenger, Victim)
Served as a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War, financing an artillery unit that became known as the Astor Battery and personally donating his yacht for military use. 

Butt, Major Archibald (Passenger, Victim)
Served in and survived the Spanish-American War in Cuba.  Later served in and survived the Philippine-American War (1899-1902) .

Gwinn, William (Crew, Victim)
Served in and survived the Spanish-American War in Cuba as a private in the US Army.

Lind, Erik (Passenger, Victim)
Born in Sweden, served with the US Navy on various ships and survived.

Mock, Philipp (Passenger, Survivor)
Served in the Spanish-American War.

Weir, Colonel John (Passenger, Victim)
Served as an army officer in the Spanish-American War in the Philippines.

Windebank, Alfred (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the American-Spanish War; also served and served in the RNVR and survived WW1.

Wynn William (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the US Navy in the American-Spanish War. During the Boer War, he was involved with transporting troops between South Africa and England; he also served during WW1 and survived. 


Philippine-American War 1899–1902

Butt, Major Archibald (see above)


Boer War 1899–1902

Carter James (Crew, Victim) 
Served in the Boer War as a Farrier Sergeant of the South African Mounted Police. 

Clark, William (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the Boer War as a private in the Brabant's Horse corps and the British Army in WW1 and survived.  

Collins John (Crew, Survivor)
Served as a private in the Boer War and survived.

Haggan, John (Crew, Survivor)
Served as a private in the Royal Horse Artillery during the Boer War.

Harrison, Aragõa D. (Crew, Survivor)
Served with the British Army during the Boer War, and during WW1, served with the British Merchant Marine, survived.

Hart, John (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the South African Light Force during the Boer War.

Harvey, Herbert (Crew, Victim)
Served as a private in the 46[Belfast] Company of the 13th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in the Boer war, awarded the Queen's Medal and King's Medal with one clasp.

Head, Christopher (Passenger, Victim)
His younger brother, Bernard, was a Lieutenant and later captain in the Ellesmere Company of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion Kings Shropshire Light Infantry during the Boer War.  He was then a major in the 1/5 TF battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers regiment during WW1 and was killed on 13th August 1915 by sniper during the Gallipoli Campaign. Many show his death on 12 August 1915 which is incorrect like his military records.  Another brother, John Alban, was a lieutenant in the 8th Suffolk Regiment, he served in and survived WW1.

Knight, George (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the Boer War in the Army Medical Corps; in WW1, he served with the British Army and was discharged.

Lewis, Arthur (Crew, Survivor)
Served on the hospital ship Augustine in the Boer War as a private; in WW1, served in the Army Service Corps; in WW2, served on a troopship and survived.

Lightoller, Charles H. (Crew, Survivor)
He served in the Boer War on troopships and, in 1903, served in the Royal Navy as a Sub Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve. Also, in 1913, he served in the Royal Naval Reserve as a Lieutenant and served in WW1; in 1919, he was a Royal Navy Commander with the Royal Naval Reserve.  In WW2, he commanded his own boat in the evacuation of Dunkirk and was also a member of the Home Guard; both his sons were killed serving in WW2, Brian in the RAF and Roger in the Royal Navy..

Lindsay, William (Crew, Survivor)
Before Titanic, served as a lance corporal in the Royal Engineers and Imperial Yeomanry. Served and survived the Boer War again as a lance corporal, and during WW1, served in the Royal Navy and survived. 

Mellors, William (Passenger, Survivor)
His father, William, served in the Boer War.

Morgan, Charles (Crew, Victim)
Served as a quartermaster in the Western Province Mounted Rifles during the Boer War.

Murdoch, William (Crew, Victim)
Served in the Royal Naval Reserve on troopships in the early years of the Boer War.

McElroy, Hugh (Crew, Victim)
Served on the troopship Britannic for three years during his Boer War service and is mentioned in the Boer War Transport Medal and the South African Clasp.

Pearce, Ernest (Passenger, Victim)
He served in the 10th Hussars Cavalry, a part of the British Army during the Boer Wars and survived and carried on in the army and army reserves up to 1911 when he retired.

Ray, Frederick Dent (Crew, Survivor)
During the Second Boer War was enlisted in the Prince of Wales Light Horse Infantry and served as a private in the Cape Mounted Police.

Roberts, Frank (Crew, Victim)
Served as a trooper in the Boer War.

Ryerson, William (Crew, Survivor)
Served as a private in the Royal Canadian Dragoons and later served in the British Army during the Boer War (Royal Field Artillery); also survived WW1.

Smith, Captain Edward John (Crew, Victim)
As a member of the Royal Naval Reserve, he made two trips on the troopship Majestic, one in December 1899 and one in February 1900, both passing without incident.  In 1903, King Edward VII awarded him the Transport Medal with South Africa clasp for his service.  His daughter Helen later married; her son Simon served in the RAF and was killed during WW2.

Teuton, Thomas (Crew, Victim)
Served as a private in the British Army,1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers for 8 years and served in the Boer Wars and survived this war, awarded QSM with 5 bars and also KSM but sadly did not survive the Titanic.

Wynn, William (see above)


Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905

Moor, Mrs Bella (Passenger, Survivor)
Her assumed husband, Reuben, served and died in the Russo-Japanese war.

Moor, Master Meier (Passenger, Survivor)
His assumed father served and died in the Russo-Japanese war.

Spinner, Henry (Passenger, Victim)
Served in the Royal Marines aboard HMS Orion.


World War One 1914–1918

Abrams, William (Crew, Victim)
His widow, Mabel's second husband, Arthur Ford, was a mariner in WW1 and was killed at sea. William’s own surviving son, William, served during WW2 and was also lost at sea.

Alexander, William (Passenger, Victim)
His two brothers, Charles, who served in the British Army Royal Horse Artillery, and youngest brother Sydney who served in the British Army in the 9th Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, were both killed in WWI.

Allum, Owen (Passenger, Victim)
His brother Stewart served in the British Army in the Royal Engineers and survived WW1.

Andrews, Charles E. (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the merchant navy in WW1 and WW2 and survived.

Andrews Thomas (Passenger, Victim)
His brother-in-law, Lawerence Hind, served as  Lieutenant Colonel in the 1/7th Bn Sherwood Foresters and was killed in action in WW1.

Archer, Ernest (Crew, Survivor)
Served on troopships in WW1 and survived.

Asplund, Johan C. (Passenger, Survivor)
Served 10 months in the Swedish Navy; also served in the US Army in France during WW1 and survived.

Bailey, Henry J. (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the Royal Navy in peacetime many years prior to Titanic.  Served in the Royal Navy WW1 and survived as did his brother-in-law Arthur Bright.

Ball, Percy (Crew, Survivor)
He served in the merchant services and survived WW1.

Barnes, William (Delivery Crew)
A member of the Royal Naval Reserve he served in the merchant fleet during WW1 and survived.

Bartley, Thomas (Delivery Crew)
Served in the merchant fleet in WW1 and survived.

Beattie, Francis (Delivery Crew)
Served in the Royal Naval Reserve and survived WW1.

Bendell, Frank (Crew, Victim)
His brother Bertie served in the Merchant Marine and was killed in WW1; his other brother Frederick was on the Britannic when the ship struck a mine, he survived.

Berriman, William (Passenger, Victim)
In WW1 his brother Samuel served in the British Army 8th Battalion Devonshire Regiment and was killed.

Blair, David (Delivery Crew)
Served during WW1 and survived.

Bloomer, James (Delivery Crew)
Served in the Royal Naval Reserve and survived WW1.

Boughton, Bernard (Crew, Victim)
His brother Arthur believed to be in the British Army and served and killed leaving a widow and son.

Bowerman Elsie (Passenger, Survivor)
In 1916, Elsie volunteered as an orderly in the London Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospital. With this, she travelled to serve the Serbian and Russian armies in Romania via Scandinavia and the length of Russia and Ukraine from Archangel to Odesa.

Boxhall, Joseph (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the Royal Naval Reserve and survived WW1.

Braiden, William (Delivery Crew)
Served and survived WW1.

Brice Walter (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the Merchant Navy in WW1 and survived. 

Bright, Arthur (Crew, Survivor)
Brother in law to Henry J. Bailey; served in the Royal Navy WW1 survived.

Broom, Herbert (Crew, Victim)
Widow Rosina remarried; her 2nd husband John served in WW1 and was killed.

Brown, Margaret (Passenger, Survivor)
Margaret travelled to France to work with the American Red Cross in 1914.
She went to the Picardy region to help treat wounded soldiers, bring medical supplies, and work as a nurse and ambulance driver. She also helped to get literary works translated into braille to help blind soldiers. Her son Lawrence Palmer Brown served as a captain in the American Expeditionary Force and was invalided home after exposure to mustard gas.

Buckley, Daniel (Passenger, Survivor)
Served in the US Army WW1 and was killed.

Buley, Edward (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the Royal Navy during WW1 as an Able Seaman on HMS Partridge; it was sunk 12 December 1917, and he was killed. 

Burns, Miss Elizabeth (Passenger, Survivor)
Served in WW1, helping to recruit nurses.

Burrage Arthur (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the Merchant Navy in WW1 and survived. 

Cavell, George H. (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the merchant service during WW1 and survived.

Charters, David (Passenger, Victim)
His brother Robert served and survived WW1; his brother William was executed during the Irish civil war.

Clark, William (see above)

Clench Frederick (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the Merchant Navy in WWI and survived. 

Cohen, Gurshon (Passenger, Survivor)
Served in the British Army and was shot at twice in one day, being wounded in the neck and head, leaving him blind in his left eye; however, he survived WW1. He was not involved with fighting in WW2 but did survive the London Blitz.

Cochrane, Robert (Delivery Crew)
Served in the Royal Naval Reserve WW1, no further details known.

Connaughton, Michael (Passenger, Victim)
His brother Matthew was in the 2nd Leinster Regiment and was killed in WW1.

Cosgrove, William (Delivery Crew)
Served in WW1 and survived.

Crafter, Frederick (Crew survivor)
Served in the British Army Guards Machine Gun Regiment as a trooper and again as a trooper in the 2nd Life Guards with the British Navy; he survived WW1.

Craig, John (Delivery Crew)
Served in the Royal Naval Reserve during WW1.

Crawford, Alfred (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the merchant Navy during WW1 and survived.

Creese, Henry (Crew, Victim)
Son William served in WW1 and was killed.

Crimmins, James (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the Royal Navy as a trimmer in WW1.  During WW2 he was serving aboard the troopship Windsor Castle when it was torpedoed in the Mediterranean; he survived.

Croskery, Thomas (Delivery Crew)
Served in the merchant fleet in WW1 and survived.

Crossley, John (Delivery Crew)
Served in WW1 and survived.

Cumings, John (Passenger, Victim)
His son Wells served in the marines and died in WW1; another son Thayer served and survived WW2.

Cunningham, Alfred (Passenger, Victim)
His brother Robert served in the Merchant service and lost his life in WW1.

Cunningham, Andrew (Crew, Survivor)
Served in WW1 and survived.

Daniels, Sidney E. (Crew, Survivor)
Served Royal Army Corps in WW1 and Merchant Navy in WW2 and survived.

Dashwood, William (Crew, Victim)
His brother Robert served in the 8th Battalion London Regiment of the Post Office Rifles; he lost his life in WW1.

Davis, Miss Mary (Passenger, Survivor)
After the sinking she married; her husband John served in the US Navy during WW1 and survived.

Diaper, John J. (Crew, Survivor)
Served as a private in the Hampshire and Devonshire Regiments and the Royal Engineers.

Dillon, Thomas (Crew, Survivor)
He served in the Royal Navy and survived WW1.

Doel Frederick (Crew, Survivor)
He served in the Merchant Navy (It's unclear if he later went into active action), and he survived.

Dore, Albert J. (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the British Army in WW1 and survived.

Dorkings Edward (Passenger, Survivor)
He avoided the WWI draft and joined the US Coast Artillery on 2 May 1917, serving until his discharge in January 1919. 

Doughty, Walter (Crew, Victim)
His brother Albert served in the Canadian Infantry and was killed in WW1.

Gordon, Lady Duff (Passenger, Survivor)
Loaned her Lucile Salon in Paris to the French Red Cross for use as an ambulance facility during part of the war. From 1914 to the war's end, she allowed the French Army to use her Versailles villa, Pavillon Mars, as lodging for its commissariat staff.

Duquemin, Joseph (Passenger, Survivor)
Served in the US Army and survived WW1; his son Joseph served in the US Navy and survived the Korean War.

Evans, Alfred (Crew, Survivor)
Served in and survived WW1.

Evans, Frank (Crew, Survivor)
Served in and survived both WW1 and WW2; no relation to Alfred Evans.

Ferron, Nicholas (Delivery Crew)
Served in the Royal Naval Reserve and survived WW1.

Fitzpatrick, Cecil (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the British Army Royal Garrison Artillery and survived WW1.

Flack, John (Delivery Crew)
Served in WW1 and survived.

Fleet, Frederick (Crew Survivor)
Served on merchant ships in WW1 and during WW2 served again and survived.

Fletcher, Robert (Delivery Crew)
Served in the Royal Naval Reserve in WW1 and was killed.

Foley, Wilfred (Crew, Survivor)
He served in the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment and never saw combat, later discharged, however he died later in 1916 in England.

Ford, Arthur (Passenger, Victim)
His sister Florence married Henry who served in the Royal Tank Corps during WW1 and was killed.

Fredericks, Walter (Crew, Survivor)
Served on troopships and hospital ships in WW1 and survived WW2.

Gamble, William (Delivery Crew)
Served in the merchant fleet and survived WW1.

Garfirth, John (Passenger, Victim)
His brother Leonard served in the 14th Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in WW1 and killed.

Gillespie, William (Passenger, Victim)
His brother Emmanuel served in the Royal Army Medical Corps; what happened to him is uncertain.

Graham, Thomas (Crew, Survivor)
Served in Royal Irish Rifles, unknown if involved with combat, survived WW1.

Haddock, Herbert (Other Crew)
Served in and survived WW1.

Hall, George (Delivery, Crew)
Served and survived Royal Navy WW1.

Hanley, William (Delivery Crew)
Served in the Royal Navy and survived WW1.

Hardwick, Reginald (Crew, Survivor)
Around January 1918, he commenced service with Army Service Corp as a private. Following eight weeks of training in Isleworth, Middlesex, England was struck with an illness and died two days later in Fulham Hospital, London, on 4 March 1918, aged 26.  Two of his brothers-in-law also served. Private Jim Tyson (York and Lancs) was discharged after serving two years in France. The other brother-in-law, Walter Tyson MGC [Machine Gun Corps], served in Egypt.

Hardy, John (Crew, Survivor)
Served on hospital ships and troopships WW1 and survived.

Harkin, Samuel (Delivery, Crew)
Served and survived WW1.

Harmes, Robert (Delivery Crew)
Served in the Royal Engineers and survived WW1.

Harris Irene (Passenger, Survivor)
Proposed and helped organise and back the first tour to entertain frontline troops.

Harris, Joseph (Delivery Crew)
Served in the Royal Naval Reserve and Merchant fleet and survived WW1.

Harrison, Aragõa D. (see above)

Hartnell, Fred (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the merchant service in WW1 and survived.

Harvey, John (Delivery Crew)
Served in the British Army and survived WW1.

Head, Christopher (see above)

Hemming, Samuel (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the Royal Navy WW1 and survived.

Herman, Miss Alice (Passenger, Survivor)
Her husband William served in WW1 and WW2 and survived.

Hichens, Robert (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the Royal Naval Reserve and survived WW1.

Holme, Nicholas (Delivery Crew)
Served in the merchant fleet in WW1 and WW2 and survived.

Hopkins, Frederick (Crew, Victim)
His father Alfred wanted to serve in WW1 but was found unfit for active service. His brother Ralph served in and survived WW1.

Hopkins, Robert (Crew, Survivor)
Son James served in the British Army WW1, no further details known.  

Humby, Frederick (Crew, Victim)
His brother Frank, who was already in the Royal Navy served and survived WW1.

Hutchinson, John (Crew, Victim)
His brother Edward served in the Royal Navy and lost his life in WW1.

Ingrouille, Henry (Crew Victim)
His brother Clifford served in the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry and killed in WW1.

Jackson, Cecil (Crew, Victim)
His younger brother Arthur served in the Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed WW1.

Jansson, Carl (Passenger, Survivor)
Served US Army and survived WW1.

Jarvis, Denzil (Passenger, Victim)
His son Denzil served in the 20th Battalion Central Ontario Regiment Canadian Expeditionary Force and survived WW1.His other son Wellesley served in the 17th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment and his cousin George Hughes served in the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry both were killed in WW1.  

Jessop, Violet (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the merchant navy and as a nurse in the British Red Cross, including surviving the sinking of Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic.

Jewell, Archie (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the Merchant Navy and was killed when the hospital ship Donegal was torpedoed on 17 April 1917. 

Johnstone, James (Crew, Survivor)
Served and survived WW1. His  older son called James Younger son James was on Lustania died when ship was torpedoed.

Joughin, Charles (Crew, Survivor)
Served and survived WW1 and one of his brother Theodore served in Royal Navy was killed in WW1.

Keenan, William (Delivery Crew)
Served and survived WW1, later discharged as unfit.

Keenan, Patrick (Delivery Crew)
Served in Royal Navy and survived WW1.

Kenyon, Frederick (see above)

Kennedy, John (Passenger, Survivor)
Served in the American military and died in America during basic training in WW1.

Knight, George (see above

Knowles, Thomas (Crew, Survivor)
Served and survived WW1.

Leather, Mrs Elizabeth (Crew, Survivor)
Served on the merchant fleet and survived WW1.

Lehmann, Miss Bertha (Passenger, Survivor)
First husband John killed WW1

Lesueur, Louis (Passenger, Survivor)
Served in the army and survived WW1.

Lewis, Arthur (see above)

Lewis, James (Delivery Crew)
Served in mercantile marine in WW1 and killed.

Lightoller, Charles H. (see above)

Lindsay, William (see above)

Lines, Mrs Elizabeth L. (Passenger, Survivor)
Served in the Ambulance service and survived WW1 with her son Howard who died during WW1.

Lines, Miss Mary (Passenger, Survivor)
Served in the Ambulance service and survived WW1 with her mother as above and brother Howard who died during WW1.

Longmuir, John (Crew, Victim)
His brother Percival served in the Black watch of the Royal Highlanders and killed in WW1 and another brother Gordon served in the Somerset Light Infantry and survived WW1.

Lowe, Harold Godfrey (Crew, Survivor)
After Titanic was recalled in 1913 to the Royal Navel Reserve and promoted to sub-lieutenant, during WW1 1916-1919 served on HMS Donegal and in the Far East served on HMS Suffolk. In 1919 rejoined White Star Line, and in 1927 released by the RNR with the rank of commodore.   During WW2
served as an Air Raid Precautions warden in Deganwy from 1939 to 1942.

Lowery, David (Delivery Crew)
Served in the Royal Navy and lost his life at sea during WW1 and his brother Hugh served in WW1 and too killed.

Lucas William (Crew, Survivor)
Served in WW1 and was listed as a Bosun in the Merchant Navy. He served on the destroyer HMS Derwent carrying out anti-submarine and counter-mining patrols and convoy duties. This ship was sunk off the French coast on 2 May 1917; he survived this and the rest of the war.  Had a brother, Reginald Victor Lucas, who also fought in WW1.

Lyttle, James (Delivery Crew)
Served in the merchant fleet and survived WW1.

Mann, Joseph (Delivery Crew)
Served on the merchant ships and survived WW1.

Mama, Mr Hanna (Passenger, Survivor)
John (Anglicised name) had draft registration for both WW1 and WW2 and survived.

Marett, George (Crew, Victim)
His brother Joseph served in the Merchant Marine and lost his life WW1.

Mathers, John (Delivery Crew)
Served possibly in the Royal Irish Rifles and survived WW1.

May, Arthur (son) (Crew, Victim)
His wife remarried husband William served in the Royal Horse Artillery and died in WW1.

Mayes, William (Delivery Crew)
Served in the Royal Engineers and merchant fleets and survived WW1.

Mish’Alani, Ibrahim (Crew, Victim)
Son Victor served in British Army WW1 and killed.

McAteer, John (Delivery Crew)
Served on the merchant ships and survived WW1.

McCarron, David (Delivery Crew)
Served in British Army 6th Inniskilling Dragoons and later discharged in WW1 and later died 1918.

McEntee, Charles (Delivery Crew)
Served in British Army and survived and later discharged in WW1.

McGann, James (Crew, Survivor)
His brother Joseph served and survived WW1.

McGaw, Samuel (Delivery Crew)
Served and survived WW1 and WW2.

McGrogan, John (Delivery Crew)
Served and survived WW1.

McKay, Charles (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the Merchant Fleet and survived WW1.

McMicken, Arthur (Crew, Survivor)
Served and survived WW1 and WW2.

McMillen, Samuel (Delivery Crew)
Brothers. Served in the merchant fleet and survived WW1

McMillen, William (Delivery Crew)
Brothers. Served in the merchant fleet and survived WW1.

McMullan, Richard (Delivery Crew)
Served in Royal Navy and survived WW1.

Moore, George (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the Merchant Fleet and survived WW1.

Morgan, Patrick (Delivery Crew)
Served in the Royal Naval Reserve and survived WW1.

Morrow, Thomas (Passenger, Victim)
His brother George served in the Royal Garrison Artillery and died in Scotland WW1.

Mulholland, Joseph (Delivery Crew)
Served in the merchant navy and survived WW1.

Nancarrow, William (Passenger, Victim)
His son Thomas served in the 14th Battalion of the Gloucester Regiment and killed WW1.

Nannini, Sig Francesco (Crew, Victim)
His son Antonio served in the army in both WW1 and WW2 and survived.

Nolan, Michael (Delivery Crew)
Served in the Royal Naval Reserve and survived WW1.

Nutbean, William (Crew, Survivor)
Served in WWI in the Mercantile Marine and was awarded the Mercantile Marine War Medal for his services and continued to go out to sea till at least 1931. 

Osman, Mrs Mara (Passenger, Survivor)
Oldest son Antun served in WW1 and was killed.

Osman, Frank (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the Royal Naval Reserve and survived WW1.

Pascoe, Charles (Crew, Survivor)
Served Royal Navy and survived WW1.

Patton, Matthew (Delivery Crew)
Served and survived WW1.

Penrose, John (Crew, Victim)
Son Reginald served in the 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment WW1 and killed.

Pearce, John (Crew, Survivor)
Served Royal Navy and survived WW1.

Pears, Mrs Edith (Passenger, Survivor)
She was involved in driving ambulances in WW1, and her brothers served in WW1. Keith and Bernard were killed and Geoffrey served in the Canadian Army survived in WW1. Bernard was awarded VC.

Pelham, George (Crew, Survivor)
Served and survived WW1 and WW2.

Peters, William C. (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine (Merchant Navy) in WW1 and survived. 

Peuchen Arthur (Passenger, Survivor) 
At a young age, joined the military and, whilst living in Canada and later England and during WW1, didn’t go to war but was in command of the Home Battalion of the Queens Own Rifles and relinquished command in 1915 and thereafter was no longer in military service.

Prentice, Frank (Crew, Survivor)
Served and survived WW1.  

Phillimore, Harold (Crew Survivor)
Served in maybe in the mercantile marine in survived WW1.

Podesta, Alfred (Crew, Survivor)
Served and survived WW1.

Poingdestre, John (Crew, Survivor)
Served merchant service and survived WW1.

Priest, Arthur (Crew, Survivor)
Served and survived three further shipwrecks: Alcantara (1916), the Britannic (1916), and the Donegal (1917).

Prior, Harold (Crew, Survivor)
Served Royal Marine Light Infantry and survived WW1.

Pusey, Willlam (Crew, Survivor)
Served Mercantile Marine Reserve and was serving as a fireman on the trawler HMS Dirk a patrol boat, when UC75 torpedoed the ship off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, on 28 May 1918, and his body was never recovered.

Ransom, James (Crew, Victim)
Son Francis served in British Army and survived but deserted WW1.

Revell, William (Crew, Victim)
Brother John served in the British Navy in WW1 and was killed; William's son Jack served in WW2 and sadly died as a Prisoner of War.

Rice, Charles (Crew, Survivor)
Served Royal Navy and survived WW1.

Roberts, Mrs Mary (Crew, Survivor)
Served on a hospital ship and survived WW1.

Rosenbaum, Edith (Passenger, Survivor) 
She was the first female war correspondent and interviewed soldiers in trenches and survived WW1. 

Horace Ross (Crew, Survivor)
He continued to work at sea during WWI and survived. 

Rothes, the Countess of (Passenger, Survivor)
She was a trained nurse and arranged her local Red Cross and ambulance brigade to assist her. In 1914, she opened her Fifeshire estate to Belgian refugees and later for convalescing soldiers. Her husband was a commander in the Highland Cyclists Battalion and was twice wounded and survived WW1.

Rowe, George (Crew, Survivor)
Served on a hospital ship and survived WW1.

Ryerson, Emily (Passenger, Survivor)
Awarded the Croix de Guerre for her work with the wounded French soldiers. Her daughter Suzette was awarded the same for working as a bacteriologist in a field hospital in France and was under fire from the German drive in Paris in 1918, assisting those wounded to evacuate from the hospital.

Ryerson, William (see above)

Sap, Julius (Passenger, Survivor)
served in Belgium Army and survived WW1.

Savage, Charles (Crew, Survivor)
Served merchant service and survived WW1.

Shannon, David (Delivery Crew)
Served in the Royal Naval Reserve and survived WW1 his brother did the same but he lost his life at sea in Ireland.

Scheerlinck, Jean (Passenger, Survivor)
Served in Belgium Army and survived WW1.

Seward, Wilfred (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the 10th (Scottish Battalion) The King’s Liverpool Regiment and discharged later he served on various ships during WW1 and WW2 and survived. His brothers Fred served in The King’s Liverpool Regiment wounded and his other brother Arthur served with the Argyle and Sutherland Highlighters and all survived WW1.

Sheath, Frederick (Crew, Survivor)
Served and survived WW1.

Shulver, Christopher (aka John Dilley) (Crew, Survivor)
Served in WW1 in the British Army as a driver for the Royal Field Artillery in the 39th Divisional Ammunition Column, 14th, 5th Reserve Army Brigade.

Smith, Walter (Delivery Crew)
Served and survived WW1.

Smyth, John (Delivery Crew)
Served in Royal Naval Reserves and maybe survived WW1.

Snyder John (Passenger, Survivor)
Served in WW1 in the US Army with the 4th Minnesota{?} and, in 1917, was promoted to major and with the Army Chief Draft Aid for Minnesota and probably never saw active service but survived.

Stanbrook, Augustus (Crew, Victim)
His brother Charles served in the Wiltshire Regiment was killed in WW1.

Stewart, John (Crew, Survivor)
Served Army Medical Corps and survived WW1.

Strange, Samuel (Delivery Crew)
Served in the Royal Naval Reserves WW1 and lost his life at sea.

Street, Thomas (Crew, Survivor)
Served and survived in the merchant service WW1. His brother William served the Merchant Navy and survived WW1.

Taggart, William (Delivery Crew)
Served in the British Army survived WW1.

Thaler, Montague (Crew, Victim)
His brother Sidney served in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and killed WW1.

Thompson, Alexander (Passenger, Victim)
His brother Adam served in the RAF Gordon Highlanders and killed WW1.

Terrill, Frank (Crew, Survivor)
Served merchant service and survived WW1.

Threlfall, Thomas (Crew, Survivor)
Served Merchant service and survived WW1.

Tresher, George (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary WW1 and served in the Merchant Navy and killed WW2.

Tornqvist, Johan (Passenger, Survivor)
Served and survived WW1 in US navy and WW2. Son William served and survived in Merchant Navy WW2 and also served and survived US navy Korean war. 

Triggs, Robert (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the Army Service Corps and survived WW1.

Vigott, Philip (Crew, Survivor)
He served and survived WW1 and His brother Cyril served in the war and killed WW1.

Wallcroft, Miss Nellie (Passenger, Survivor)
Served in the Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary as a cook and survived WW1.

Walls, James (Delivery Crew)
Served in maybe the British Army the merchant fleet survived WW1.

Wateridge, Edward (Crew, Victim)
His brother William who served in the 2nd/ 4th battalion of the Hampshire Regiment and he served in WW1 and lost his life after the war.

Waugh, James (Delivery Crew)
Maybe served in the Royal Irish Fusiliers later discharged and maybe survived WW1.

Weisz, Mathilde (Passenger, Survivor)
In WW1, she raised money by singing for various Belgian charities. For her efforts, the King of Belgium decorated her with the Medaille de la Reine Elisabeth and survived WW1.

Wheat, Joseph (Crew, Survivor)
Served in WW1 and survived Son John served in Royal Navy and survived WW2.

Wheelton, Edenser (Crew, Survivor)
Served in the merchant service and survived WW1.

White, Alfred (Crew, Survivor)
Served and survived WW1.

White, Edward (Crew, Victim)
Brothers served on merchant vessels Ernest White killed, George White survived WW1.

White, Frank (Crew, Victim)
His brother Arthur served in in the Royal Field Artillery 156th Brigade and was killed WW1.

Whiteley, Thomas (Crew, Survivor)
Served (maybe) in the Royal Flying Corps WW1 and served in Royal Air Force and died WW2.

Williams, Richard (Passenger, Survivor)
Served in the US Navy and survived WW1.

Windebank, Alfred (see above)

Woods, Hugh (Delivery Crew)
Served in the merchant service in both WW1 and WW2 survived.

Woolner, Hugh (Passenger, Survivor)
Son from second marriage Christopher served Royal Engineers WW1 only and served and survived WW2.

Wynn, William (see above)

Yearsley, Harry (Crew, Survivor)
Served in Mercantile marines and survived WW1.


Irish Civil War 1922–1923

Charters, David (see above)

Kelly, James (Crew, Victim)
His son Francis was involved and survived the Irish Civil War.

Kilgannon, Thomas (Passenger, Victim)
His brother William served and survived the Irish Civil War.

O’Keeffe, Patrick (Passenger, Survivor)
His brother James was in the National Army with connection with the Irish Civil War and killed in 1922. Patrick’s Son Edward served in the Navy and survived WW2.


World War Two, 1939–1945

Abrams, William (see above)

Allen, Miss Elisabeth Walton (Passenger, Survivor)
Son Peter Mennell served in the Royal Artillery, British Army WW2 survived.

Andrews, Charles E. (see above)

Boston, William (Crew, Victim)
His wife remarried later William, own son William born 1911 worked as an actor and entertainer served in the RAF during WW2 and survived.

Carbines, William (Passenger, Victim)
His brother Richard served in the RAF and was killed in WW2 and maybe another brother called Nicholas was involved in WW2.

Cavendish, Tyrrell (Passenger, Victim)
His son Henry served in the RAF and survived WW2.

Cotton, Alfred (Crew, Victim)
His son William served in the Royal Navy and survived WW2.

Crimmins, James (see above)

Cummings, John (see above)

Daniels, Sidney E (see above)

Ellis, John B. (Crew, Survivor)
His sons Bertie served in the Royal Artillery WW2 and killed. Archie served in Merchant Marine and Royal Navy Reserve WW2 survived.

Evans, Frank (see above)

Fleet, Frederick (see above)

Fraser, James (Crew, Victim)
Son James served in the Navy in WW2 and killed.

Fredericks, Walter (see above)

Gatti, Gaspare (Crew, Victim)
Son Victor served and survived WW2.

Gibson, Miss Dorothy (Passenger, Survivor)
Was involved Fascist politics and intelligence work and survived WW2.

Goree, Frank (Crew, Victim)
His son Ernest served as a civilian on various ships in WW2 and survived.

Hendy, Edward (Crew, Victim)
His son Norman helped with small boats at Dunkirk WW2 and survived.

Herman, Miss Alice (see above)

Hogeboom, Mrs Anna L. (Passenger, Survivor)
Had a son Robert, his son Robert Jnr was killed in WW2.

Hodgkinson, Leonard (Crew, Victim)
His daughter Caroline son Albert RAF pilot served in the 156 Pathfinder Squadron in WW2 and killed.

Holme, Nicholas (see above)

Lewis, Arthur (see above)

Lightoller, Charles H. (see above)

Lowe, Harold Godfrey (see above)

Madill, Miss Georgette (Passenger, Survivor)
Her husband Alfred served in the Intelligence Corps and survived WW2.  

Mama, Mr Hanna (see above)

Marks, James (Crew, Victim)
His Son Ronald served in the RAF and survived WW2.

Mayo, William (Crew, Victim)
His son William served in the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers in WW2 and killed.

Meisnere, Simon (Crew, Victim)
His son Ira served in the Merchant Marines survived WW2 but was a POW and Raymond served and survived WW2.

Moss, Albert (Passenger, Survivor)
He was not serving in WW1 but ship was torpedoed and sank and later served on other ships WW2 survived.

McGaw, Erroll (Crew, Victim)
His brother Robert was a merchant seaman and lost his life in the sea WW2.

McGaw, Samuel (see above)

McMicken, Arthur (see above)

McMurray, William (Crew, Victim)
Son William served and survived WW2.

Nannini, Sig Francesco (see above)

Navratil, Edmond (Passenger, Survivor)
Joined the French army (11th RI French Regiment) and served as a sergeant. Later, captured by Germans and held in a POW camp, escaped and survived WW2.

Noon, John (Crew, Victim)
His son John served in the Royal Navy lost his life to the sea in WW2.

O’Keeffe, Patrick (see above)

Pelham, George (see above)

Perry, Edgar (Crew, Survivor)
Killed with his wife in bombing of Southampton during WW2.

Pinsky, Miss Rosa (Passenger, Survivor)
Thought to have been killed in holocaust in 1943.

Pitman, Herbert (Crew Survivor)
Served in the merchant navy, survived WW2.

Revell, William (see above)

Rheims, George (Passenger, Survivor)
George and served and survived WW2. His son George served in US Army 2nd Infantry Division and survived WW2.

Richards, William (Passenger, Survivor)
Served in the Royal Navy and survived WW2 like his brother Sibley.

Richards, Sibley (Passenger, Survivor)
Served in the Royal Navy and survived WW2 like his brother William.

Roberts, Robert (Crew, Victim)
His son Ernest served in the Royal Navy on the HMS Hood and lost his life at sea in WW2.

Rowe, Alfred (Passenger, Victim)
His son Charles served in the Royal Navy and his other son served in the British Army during WW2 and both survived.

Seward, Wilfred (see above)

Senior, Henry (Crew, Survivor)
His Son Henry served in the Royal Navy and killed in WW2.

Shannon, Andrew (Passenger, Victim)
His son Leonard served in the Royal Naval Reserve Volunteers in WW2, and he lost his life as the ship was torpedoed and sank.

Shea, John (Crew, Victim)
His son John served in the Merchant Navy and survived WW2

Silverthorne, Spencer Victor (Passenger, Survivor)
Served in the US Marine Corps in the 6th Marine Division as First Lieutenant and was awarded a Silver Star for actions and bravery on Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands in the Pacific Islands against the Japanese. From 1st April to 21 June 1945. 

Slayter, Miss Hilda (Passenger, Survivor)
Her son Reginald served in Canadian Navy and survived WW2.

Smith, Captain Edward (see above)

Taylor, William H. (Crew, Survivor)
Wife remarried and her son Ronald from this marriage served and killed WW2.

Thayer, John Borland, jr. (Passenger, Survivor)
Served in the 79th Division of the First City Troop as an artillery officer in the US Army from 1917-18 and survived. His son, Second Lieutenant Edward C Thayer [1921-1943] was a co-pilot in the US Air Force 90th Bomber Squadron, 3rd Bomber Group [Light] in and listed as missing and presumed dead after his plane was shot down in 1943. 
His other son John B Thayer IV [1918-1987] was a lieutenant [ Junior Grade] served in WW2 as a naval air force as a sailor and pilot in the US Navy, and survived.

Thomas, Joseph (Crew, Victim)
His son Arthur was serving in the Hampshire Regiment and lost his live during WW2.

Tresher, George (see above)

Tornqvist, Johan (see above)

Tu’mah, Mrs Hinnah (Passenger, Survivor)
Youngest son Joe served in WW2 and served and survived Korean war.

Wallis, Mrs Catherine (Crew, Victim)
Her son James served in the Royal Navy and survived WW2.

Wareham, Robert (Crew, Victim)
His namesake son Robert served in the Merchant Navy WW2 (second engineer officer SS Aguila [Liverpool] merchant navy) and was killed on 19 August 1941.

Wheat, Joseph (see above)

Whiteley, Thomas (see above)

Wilde, Henry Tingle (Crew, Victim)
His son, Henry Owen Wilde, started as an apprentice in the merchant service in the late ‘teens and went on to serve with distinction. He was a Beach Marshall at Normandy on the second day’s landings and was decorated by the French for some of the work he did there during the last period of the fighting, having done much to re-secure the waterways.

Woods, Hugh (see above)

Woolner, Hugh (see above)


Korean War 1950–1953

Duquemin, Joseph (see above)

Tornqvist, Johan (see above)

Tu’mah, Mrs Hinnah (see above)

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  1. Thomas Krom Thomas Krom
    It's an outstanding article, I only found two names missing that spring to mind:[LIST][*]Captain Edward Gifford Crosby (1842-1912) served in the 1st Regiment, Michigan Cavalry during the American Civil War. According to Don Lynch his granddaughter Andree Presley even told him that her grandfather fell off his horse which left him with a permanent round-shouldered stoop. Unbeknownst to some he was even photographed on the Titanic, he’s the elderly man standing on the left watching Frederic and Douglas Spedden playing on the A-deck promenade (he was identified by his family in that photograph)[*]Lieutenant-Colonel Lawrence Arthur Hind, Thomas Andrews Jr his brother-in-law, fought in the First World War as part of the 1/7th Bn Sherwood Foresters. He was killed in action on the 1st of July on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.[/LIST]
  2. howard8865 howard8865
    This the latest updates for Family at War as i have found more names as missed names. The list includes 1x new person found for American Civil war1x new person found for Spainsh American war 1898Boer warNew person 4Update 12Ww1 New person 22Updates 17Ww2New person 5Updates 3
  3. Thomas Krom Thomas Krom
    This the latest updates for Family at War as i have found more names as missed names. The list includes1x new person found for American Civil war1x new person found for Spainsh American war 1898Boer warNew person 4Update 12Ww1New person 22Updates 17Ww2New person 5Updates 3It looks splendid! I got one more name, even through he didn't fought himself as he sadly died on-board the Titanic. The older brothers of sixth officer James Paul Moody (John Evelyn Moody and Christopher William Moody) saw combat too. John saw combat during the Boer War and later World War 1 while Christopher joined the Grimsby unit only during the First World War. Their sister Margaret Alice Moody served as a nurse too in World War One.
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