Mr Kurt Arnold Gottfrid Bryhl
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| Name: Mr Kurt Arnold Gottfrid Bryhl
Born: Wednesday 2nd March 1887 Age: 25 years Last Residence: in Skara Västergötland Sweden 2nd Class passenger First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912 Ticket No. 236853 , £26 Destination: Rockford Illinois United States Died in the sinking. Body Not Recovered |
Mr Kurt Arnold Gottfrid Bryhl, 25, was born on 2 March, 1887 the son of Gustaf Gottfrid Lustig, a lawyer in Skara, Sweden. Kurt worked as upholsterer in Skara; he and his sister Dagmar Bryhl had taken their name from their grandmother. They boarded the Titanic at Southampton with Dagmar's fiancé Ingvar Enander as second class passengers. Kurt acted as interpreter for the group.
Upon arrival in America Ingvar, Kurt and Dagmar were to join the Bryhl's uncle Oskar Lustig at 511 Pearl St. Rockford, Illinois.
Mr Bryhl unlike the others, was emigrating to America. On the night of the sinking, Dagmar recalled, Kurt had been wearing a gray-speckled costume. He died in the disaster.
Travelling Companions (on same ticket)
Miss Dagmar Jenny Ingeborg Bryhl
References and Sources
Chicago Daily Tribune (Illinois), 17 April 1912
Claes-Göran Wetterholm (1988, 1996, 1999) Titanic. Prisma, Stockholm. ISBN 91 518 3644 0
Credits
Debbie Hanson, USA
Homer Thiel, USA
Leif Snellman, Finland
Related Articles and Documents
| Rockford Republic (1912) | TITANIC'S SURVIVOR COMES TO ROCKFORD | |
| Rockford Daily Register Gazette (1912) | DAGMAR BRYHL TELLS OF TITANIC DISASTER | |
| Rockford Morning Star (1912) | TITANIC SURVIVOR ARRIVES IN ROCKFORD | |
| Rockford Register Star (1997) | TITANIC SURVIVOR HAD ROCKFORD CONNECTION |
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