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L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse	JACK THAYER JR. AND BARBARA STANWYCK A man identified as "Jack Thayer Jr", shown visiting Barbara Stanwyck on the set of Fox movie "Titanic" (1953). Jack told star Barbara Stanwyck about his mother, who inspired Miss Stanwyck's character. [Jack Thayer Jr died in 1945 ed.]...	13th September 1956
Guernsey Evening Press	JACK POINGDESTRE Jack Poingdestre, whose parents lived at 28, Old St. John's Road Jersey, also had his home in Southampton. A month earlier he had been on the crew of the Oceana when it sank of Newhaven. That had been on March 16th. He at least was used to shipwrecks...	April 1912
	LAST CONTACT WITH TITANIC? Pete Morrall Was Jack Mew the last man to have contact with Titanic before she left Southampton?...
BBC News	'JACK PHILLIPS' - THE MAN WHO TRIED TO SAVE THE TITANIC John George Phillips who was nicknamed 'Jack' gained posthumous fame as the man who tried to save the Titanic and all those on board....	15th July 2010
	CARD WRITTEN BY JACK PHILLIPS Written just a few months before he joined the Titanic...	1911
Washington Times	MEN SNEAKED INTO BOATS, SAYS WOMAN Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, Wife of Novelist, Says Many Were Brave, However --- NEW YORK, April 19---Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, who was rescued, but whose husband, the novelist, went down with the Titanic, declared today that the men who were sa...	19th April 1912
	GENERAL INFORMATION Jersey Address: 28 Old St. Johns Road, Jersey. In 1996 his family were still in business in Southampton - Baitdiggers and Fishing Tackle Dealers. Jack Poingdestre, whose parents lived at 28, Old St. John's Road, also had hi...
	LETTER FROM JACK BUTTERWORTH Prior to leaving on the Titanic, Jack had been courting his fiancee (a Miss May Hinton of Woolston, Southampton) and they had agreed to become engaged. Jack wrote the following letter (actual letter see next column) which was posted at Queenstown: (n...	1912
Atlantic Daily Bulletin	JACK BUTTERWORTH Brian J. Ticehurst Butterworth, Jack. Lived at 270 Priory Road, St Denys, Southampton. Was 23 years old. Occupation on board the Titanic - Saloon Steward. (Born in Manchester). (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913). Number 326. Butterwort...	2002
bbc.co.uk	GODALMING MUSEUM CELEBRATES TITANIC HERO JACK PHILLIPS An exhibition honouring one of the heroes of the Titanic disaster has opened in his home town in Surrey. Jack Phillips, the chief telegraphic officer on the ship which sank in 1912, went down with the vessel. His last message was received three minutes before the Titanic disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean. Godalming Museum's exhibition, which runs until 12 May, is one of a series of events in the town commemorating the centenary of the loss of the ship....	11th March 2012
	A POSTCARD FROM TITANIC On 11 April 1912, John Adams (real name Richard May) posted a card to his sister in Holsworthy, Devon. It read - "Dear Ethel, Just a few lines to tell you that I have found Jack and we are going on all right. We are having it fairly c...	11th April 1912
	PRIDEAUX FAMILY INFORMATION John Arthur Prideaux (k/a Jack) was born at Southampton, Hampshire on 24 April 1888 at a house in Victoria Road, Woolston. He was the son of John Davey Prideaux and Annie Elizabeth (formerly Slade). His father, originally from Teignmouth, Dev...
	MEMORIALS TO JACK PHILLIPS Phillips, John George (Jack). Chief Wireless Operator. Has perhaps the largest Titanic memorial, namely 'The Phillips Memorial Cloister', by the River Wey, covering some three acres, at Godalming, Surrey. Inscribed on the memorial stone is: 'The Cloi...
	JACK RYERSON	1924
	JACK PHILLIPS Pictured (left) with a colleague aboard the Adriatic...
	CAPTAIN SMITH AND JACK PHILLIPS From an unidentified French paper...	1912
New York Times	CONSOLE PHILLIPS'S PARENTS blurb...	21st April 1912
	MARCONIGRAM To: Hardy, Oakleigh, Holyrood Avenue, Highfield, Southampton, England. "Safe and well. - Jack"...	18th April 1912
BYU Universe	TITANIC THE MUSICAL MAKES DEBUT AT SCERA For years the focus of what happened on the Titanic has been Hollywoods tragedy of Jack and Rose....	19th April 2011
	HAROLD BRIDE - MARCONI RADIO OPERATOR Titanic Stories The Marconi Radio Operator's descendants visit Titanic's birthplace....	14th November 2011
Titanic Research	THE ODELL TITANIC ALBUM Brian Odell Lily Odell, Kate Odell, Jack Odell, Richard May and Stanley May were all travelling together. Jack was eleven at the time and he and Kate brought along their cameras. Kate took a large number of photos, one of which was one of the last known ph...	13th September 2011
Worcester Telegram	FUTRELLE MET DEATH LIKE HERO SAYS WIFE New York, April 19.- Mrs. May Futrelle, whose husband, Jacques Futrelle, the short story writer and novelist, went down with the ship, was met here by her daughter, Miss. Virginia Futrelle, who was brought to New York, from the convent of Notre Dame ...	20th April 1912
Cook County Herald	CALLS MRS. ASTOR HEROINE Sailor of Titanic Says She Gave Her Shawl to Baby of Steerage Passenge New York, April 22---Jack Foley, a member of the crew of the Ti...	26th April 1912
Norwich Evening News	MY REMARKABLE TITANIC TALE When he takes to the stage to play a passenger on the doomed cruise liner Titanic, nine-year-old Jack Daly's thoughts might turn to his own family - he is related to one of the victims of the so-called 'unsinkable' ship. ...	21st January 2008
New York Times	PHILLIPS FOUNTAIN READY Memorial to Titanic Operator Will Be Erected at the Battery Soon --- The fountain erected in memory of Jack Phillips, the senior wireless operrator [sic] who lost his life on the Titanic when she foundered an her maiden voyage on April ...	11th October 1914
	JACK PHILLIPS IN A FRENCH BOOK FOR CHILDREN This drawing by G. Dutriac was published by Hachette in the first French book about the Titanic, 'Les Petits Naufragés du Titanic' in 1913. The authors of the novel were J. Jacquin and A. Fabre....	1913
	MEMORIAL HEADSTONE In Loving Memory Of George Simmons Died 31st October 1920 Aged 87 Also Mary Ann Simmons Died 7th March 1921 Aged 88 Also Jack, Son of the above Dr...
MinnPost.com	MINNESOTA CONNECTIONS ADD EVEN MORE POIGNANCY TO TRAVELING 'TITANIC ARTIFACT EXHIBITION' Jack and Rose weren't really on the Titanic. But Malcolm Johnson, a Swedish farmer heading for Minneapolis, was. And Walter Douglas, son of the founder of Quaker Oats, went down with the ship while on his way back to Minnesota from a European shopping trip....	9th June 2009
New York Times	TO HONOR WIRELESS HEROES To Dedicate Jack Philips Titanic Memorial Fountain May 12 --- At a meeting yesterday afternoon in the Maritime Exchange, 78 Broad Street, plans were completed for the dedication of the Jack Philips Titanic memorial fountain at the base ...	1st May 1915
Get Surrey	MYSTERY OVER TITANIC HERO TRIBUTES IS SOLVED THE mystery of who leaves flowers on the Godalming memorial to Titanic hero Jack Phillips on his birthday each April has been solved after more than two decades. ...	24th April 2010
BBC News	BID TO REVAMP GODALMING TITANIC MEMORIAL MOVES FORWARD A bid to revamp a memorial in Surrey to Jack Phillips chief telegraphist on the Titanic has moved forward....	15th July 2010
	CHARLES JOHN HURST This a photo of my great grandfather Charles John Hurst (Jack). On the back of the photo is written Hurst, 3 Laundry Road, Shirley, paid 8/6....
Oklahoma City Friday	TITANIC AT HERITAGE HALL Lift up the ramp, and let go the lines!' It's time once again for another spectacular performance by the Heritage Hall Performing Arts Department. On Feb. 16 and 17, the Howard Theatre will showcase Titanic the Musical. Directed by Jay Michael Ferguson, Titanic is an ensemble version of the same story shown on the big screen in 1997 (think the sinking ship without Jack and Rose.)...	7th February 2008
Get Surrey	TITANIC MEMORIAL TO BE GIVEN A FACE LIFT THE tribute to Godalming Titanic hero Jack Phillips is set to benefit from major improvement works in time for the centenary of his death, Waverley Borough Council has announced. A group will be formed at a public meeting next Thursday (August 20) to help drive forward the plans, after a number of organisations wrote to officials to say they were worried about the condition of Bury Fields gardens....
Get Surrey	TITANIC MEMORIAL DAMAGE WILL COST £1,000 TO REPAIR VANDALS have destroyed part of a memorial to Jack Phillips, the Farncombe-born chief wireless operator of the Titanic. The offenders smashed a stone water fountain and covered a nearby surface with graffiti. The damage was discovered by a member of staff at Waverley Borough Council and will cost more than £1,000 to repair. ...	16th March 2010
Southampton Times and Hampshire Express	DEATH NOTICE: KIRBY & MCMULLEN In loving and honoured memory of our dear cousin THOMAS KIRBY also our dearest friend JACK McMULLEN who both laid down their lives at Duty's call on board the SS Titanic, April 15, 1912. Greatly missed but never forgotten by all of us at Sholi...	19th April 1913
Lectures pour Tous	JOHN GEORGE PHILLIPS As imagined by 'Lectures pour tous', July 1912...	1912
	LEADBELLY : THE TITANIC Huddie Ledbetter - Leadbelly Blues singer/songwriter Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly, was born in Mooringsport, Louisiana in 1885. Leadbelly remarked in th...	15th October 1948
The Times	THE TITANIC'S WIRELESS OPERATORS It has been decided to erect a memorial fountain at Godalming in memory of Mr Jack Phillips, the senior wireless operator on board the Titanic, who was a native of the town. The Mayor (Alderman E Bridger) has received letters from all par...	20th May 1912
bbc.co.uk	TITANIC HERO MEMORIAL IN GODALMING TO BE RESTORED A memorial to the chief telegraphist on the Titanic is to be restored in time for the centenary of the sinking of the ship on its maiden voyage in 1912. Jack Phillips, who was born in Godalming, Surrey stayed at his post as the ship went down, sending messages to the Carpathia to rescue survivors. Phillips Memorial Park, in Godalming, is to receive £335,000 from the National Lottery for the restoration....	11th July 2011
Hammond Times	DEATH AND FUNERAL NOTICES : ERNEST PEARSON PEARSON--Ernest Pearson, age 65, of 4929 Hickory Ave., passed away Wednesday 2 a.m., Valparaiso, Ind. Funeral services Friday 2 p.m., Dalton funeral home, 727 Carroll St., Hammond. Rev. Elmer Nicholson oficiating. Burial Elmwood cemetery. Survi...	18th October 1951
Bucks Free Press	EXPERIENCES OF A TITANIC SURVIVOR (CHARLES E. JUDD) ‘Mr Wm Judd of Parkfield Villas, 166 Hughenden-road, High Wycombe, has received a letter from his brother, Mr Charles E Judd, who was one of those rescued from the Titanic, in which he gives an account of his experiences. He writes:- ...	3rd May 1912
Los Altos Nes	IMANITA SHELLY HALL CREMATION Arne Mjaland From the funeral home Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland CA I got the following details about Imanita Shelly Hall: Cremation date 5/26/54. Disposition: Chapel of peace. Birthplace Kentucky. Husband Jack S. Hall. The funeral home sent me a...	28th May 1954
Boston Globe	PHILLIPS THE JACK BINNS Wireless Operator on Titanic formerly on James Gordon Bennett's Yacht and on Oceanic. NEW YORK. April 15. - The wireless operator on the Titanic, who sent out the SOS message when she struck the iceberg is J. G. Phillips...	16th April 1912
Toronto Daily Star	BLISS, EMMA Page 32 At the Nevers Nursing home, on Wednesday, June 17, 1959, Emma Junod, beloved wife of the late Ernest John Bliss, loving mother of Mrs. Amy Armstrong, Henry and Ernest Bliss, dear grandmother of Jack Armstrong and great-grandmo...	19th June 1959
Hanford Sentinel	RELIVING A TRAGIC NIGHT ON THE SEA Doris Robertson Polley Searching for one's roots has become a national pastime. What use to take years to research has become much simpler with the use of computers. Genealogy is no longer the sole intellectual occupation of a few scholars. Anybody can tract the history...
Washington Times	DESCRIBES ASSAULT BY FRENZIED PASSENGERS NEW YORK, April 19---Wireless Operator Jack Phillips did not desert his post when the Titanic sank, but was torn from the key by a party of fear-crazed first cabin passengers, who assaulted him in an effort to take from him a big life belt he wore. ...	19th April 1912
Hammond Times	CALUMENT REGION OBITUARIES : ERNEST PEARSON Ernest Pearson, 4929 Hickory St., Hammond, died in his son's home in Valparaiso yesterday as the result of a heart attack. He was 65. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday from the Dalton Funeral home, 727 Carroll St., Hammond, ...	18th October 1951
globalmontreal.com	TITANIC STORIES - YOUNG VIOLINIST JOHN HUME A 'HERO' FOR PLAYING UNTIL THE END There were 306 bodies pulled from the icy waters and brought to the Nova Scotia city after the ship sank to the bottom of the Atlantic the morning of Apr. 15, 1912. Of those, a total of 150 were buried in three local cemeteries, but not all of were able to be identified. About 30 of the graves remain nameless, bearing only the number their body was designated in recording the recovered victims. Occasionally, graves are adorned with flowers or a wreath. Those commonly include the headstones for the grave of the unknown child or that of J. (Joseph) Dawson, which drew much attention following the release of James Cameron's 1997 film which starred Leonardo DiCaprio as the fictitious J. (as in Jack) Dawson. ...	1st March 2012
Chicago Examiner	NOT LOCKED IN CABIN ON CARPATHIA, SAYS ISMAY I know that my personal conduct has been made the subject of a lot of unfavorable comment, and I court the fullest inquiry at the hands of your committee or any one else who has the right to ask such questions. So far as the Carpathia is ...	1st May 1912

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