Mr James Matthew McCrie, 30, was a worker on an oil rig in Arabia. He rushed back home, 503 North 16th Street, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, because one of his three children was dying from tuberculosis and he wanted to comfort his distraught wife. His last place of abode was the Strand Palace Hotel in London.

Mr McCrie boarded the Titanic at Southampton as a second class passenger. He held ticket number 233478, price: £13.

He died in the sinking. His body, if recovered, was never identified.

Sources
Contract Ticket List, White Star Line 1912 (National Archives, New York; NRAN-21-SDNYCIVCAS-55[279]).
Marriages, births, deaths and injuries that have occurred on board during the voyage (PRO London, BT 100/259-260)
United States Senate (62nd Congress), Subcommittee Hearings of the Committee on Commerce, Titanic Disaster, Washington 1912

References
Alan Hustak (1999) Titanic: The Canadian Story. Véhicule Press, ISBN 1-55065-113-7

Acknowledgements
Hermann Söldner, Germany

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