AWOKE IN MORTUARY
LAID OUT WITH DEAD LONDON. May 18. A million miles in the Mauretania is the boast of Steward Harry Allport, who went- to the auction of the old liner’s equipment at Southampton yesterday. He sailed with the Mauretania on her maiden voyage and her last. During the war he missed one crossing. He deputised for a steward in the Lusitania. It- was the trip on which she was torpedoed. “I was found unconscious in the water, thrown ou the hatch of a. trawler and several bodies, and then laid out in Queensland mortuary,” he said in an interview. “Some -one going through the mortuary saw me move. “He ran out crying. ‘There’s some one in there, who’s not dead.’ “A doctor worked on me for two hours until I recovered unconsciousness and asked, ‘Where am I?’ Then T collapsed again, and was in hospital for two months.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18756, 12 July 1935, Page 2
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