Survivors of the torpedoing of HMT 'Leasowe Castle' in May 1918
Photograph by Private W B Bowyer, Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars, World War One (1914-1918), 1918.
After service in Egypt and Palestine, Bowyer's unit left Alexandria on board HMT 'Leasowe Castle'. She was torpedoed and sunk by U-51 on 27 May 1918 in the Mediteranean. Bowyer was picked up by a life boat and then returned to Alexandria by a Japanese destroyer, but 102 of the passengers and crew died.
One of 47 photographs taken by W B Bowyer, Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars, Egypt and Palestine, 1915-1918.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1991-07-219-44
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1991-07-219-44
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