The SS Persia was a P&O passenger liner torpedoed and sunk without warning on 30 December 1915.

St Michael and All Angels, Cofton Hackett, Worcestershire 
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The church was in a peaceful location except when trains were ascending or descending the infamous "Lickey Incline" which ran alongside the graveyard.


The SS Persia was a P&O passenger liner, built in 1900 by Caird & Company, Inverclyde, Greenock, Scotland. It was torpedoed and sunk without warning on 30 December 1915, by German U-Boat commander Max Valentiner.

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