FUNERAL OF A TITANIC VICTIM IN CORNWALL


Daily Mirror

Friday 31 May 1912


[Over a] thousand persons attended the funeral at St. Ives of William Carbines, [a] nineteen-year-old boy who perished in the Titanic disaster. [He] was embalmed and brought to St. Ives so that he might be laid to rest among his own people. (1) The scene in the little churchyard overlooking the Atlantic where the body was buried. (2) Mourners carrying wreaths. (3) Carbines — (Vaughan T.W. Paul.)


Acknowledgements
Steve Coombes,UK

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