Seaman James John Benoit of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve was one of 21 Newfoundland sailors who lost their lives when the Laurentic sank on January 25th 1917. They were all experienced sailors, having been trained on HMS Calypso years before the war began. James was born on the 1st of April 1893, in Stephenville,…
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John Victor Davies
Ordinary Signalman John Victor Davies was born on the 10th of July 1891 in Elswick in the west end of Newcastle. He was the second youngest of Thomas and Harriet Davies’ six children. His father, a draughtsman engineer, was from Denbighshire, North Wales and his mother from Winsford, Cheshire. They married in Liverpool in 1883….
The Legacy of the Laurentic 