Survivors of the torpedoing of HMT ‘Leasowe Castle’ in May 1918 (b/w photo)

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.