Swansea Family History

  RMS Titanic This blog looks at the connection between Swansea art and the RMS Titanic . Michel Marcel and Edmond Navratil So, let’s with Collapsible Lifeboat D.  2.05 am, April 15, was the last of the nine boats to have been lowered from the port side, of the stricken RMS Titanic, Second Officer Lightoller, managed to fit the lifeboat in the now empty davits of Lifeboat 1. Lightoller, was having difficult filling the boat with women and children but managing to fill the boat with 15-20 people.  As the boat was being lowered, Mr Bjornstrom-Steffansson and Mr Woolner jumped from the lower decks into the boat.  Picked up from the sea, was Mr Hoyt, who placed his wife in the lifeboat earlier.  Also rescued aboard this lifeboat were the two brothers, Michel Marcel and Edmond Navratil, who were dubbed the “ Orphans of the Titantic ”  Second Officer Lightoller   Earlier on the evening of 14 th April 1912, at the time of the collision, Woolner, was in the Smoking Room, in the company of

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  Below is the graph to represent the number of burials/commemorations in that country  

   Below is the long list of the names of Cemeteries/Memorials around the World, where men/women from Swansea are buried or commemorated from the Second World War Surname Initial Cemetery/Memorial Area County Country Rideout A. Bone War Cemetery Annaba Algeria Rees D. H. Dely Ibrahim War Cemetery Algeria Morgan T. El Alia Cemetery Algeria German H. E. Adelaide River War Cemetery Northern Territory Adelaide Australia James D. W. Artherton War Cemetery Queensland Australia Thomas S. Klagenfurt War Cemetery Austria Dyche J. J. Chittagong War Cemetery Bangladesh Taggart