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Iain Stuart Yardley
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Username: boz
Post Number: 777
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, December 10, 2004 - 10:00 am: | 
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Morning everyone,
According to the following article in the Salt Lake Tribune, Swedish survivor Berta Nilsson told relatives in Sweden that her fiancee Edvard Larsson-Rondberg was shot when he refused to leave her side at lifeboat D and his body was pushed into the sea.
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2483380
I don't want to bring up the subject of who shot who or didn't they. Is there anywhere else that Berta Nilsson made such claims? According to the article, she appears to have been pretty discreet about her Titanic connections up until late in life.
Cheers,
Boz |
Monica Hall
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Username: monica
Post Number: 1096
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 10, 2004 - 4:34 pm: |
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Hmm. Hard to know what to say, really. One cannot see why someone should remain silent about such a thing for so many years; all her life, in fact, if the article is to be believed. But on the other hand, if it were true, one would expect more witnesses to the occasion to have mentioned it. And difficult to understand why anyone should have made the story up i.e. the Swedish relatives, not Berta, who apparently merely said (in the 1950s) that she had been on board, and wept when she saw the movie, ANTR.
The circumstantial facts about her being aboard should not be hard to verify, but that's about all, I would have thought. |
