ONE members and members of The Military Police of Ireland Association attended the memorial service at Old Church Cemetery, Cobh Co Cork on Sunday 8th May 2022. The 107th anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania was marked with prayers and wreath laying at the graves of the Lusitania victims at Old Church Cemetery followed by a wreath laying at the Lusitania Peace Memorial in Casement Square, Cobh. Pic: Larry Cummins (Roisin Burke report- Organised by Cobh Tourism, the ceremonies are fitting memorials to all those who lost their lives on that fateful wartime voyage. Cobh has an enduring connection to the Lusitania and its tragic story because it is where survivors were brought and many of the dead were buried. On May 7, 1915 Cunard Ocean liner ‘Lusitania’ was sunk by a German torpedo 11 miles off the Old Head of Kinsale. The ship had been en route from New York to Liverpool with 1,962 people onboard. Survivors were ferried to Queenstown, as Cobh was then known, and were accommodated in local hospitals, lodging houses and private homes. Nearly three days after the sinking of the Lusitania, over 145 of her victims were buried in three mass graves and some smaller plots in the Old Church Cemetery, one mile north of Cobh town, 80 of whom were never identified.