Thomas Edwards engaged as a fireman in the Engineering Department on board the Lusitania at Liverpool, at a monthly rate of pay of £6-10s.-0d. (£6.50p.), £1-0s.-0d. of which was advanced to him at the time. He reported for duty early on the morning of the 17th April; in time for the vessels last ever voyage out of the River Mersey.
Three weeks later, he was lucky to be counted among the survivors when the Cunarder was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of southern Ireland and only hours away from her home port.
Having been rescued from the sea, he was landed at Queenstown from where he managed to continue to his home in Liverpool. Nothing further is known of him.
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