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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William West McGhie
Engine Room Artificer William West McGhie of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, was the second child of Nathaniel and Elizabeth McGhie (née West). He was born and grew up in Hutchesontown, in Glasgow’s Southside. Like most working class families in Glasgow at the time, the McGhie’s lived in a four story tenement building in which…
The Legacy of the Laurentic 