Mr Robert Douglas Norman
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| Name: Mr Robert Douglas Norman
Age: 28 years Last Residence: in Glasgow Scotland Occupation: Electrical Engineer 2nd Class Passengers First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912 Ticket No. 218629 , £13 10s Destination: Vancouver British Colombia Canada Died in the Titanic disaster (15th April 1912). Body recovered by: Mackay-Bennett (No. 287) Buried: Fairview Lawn Cemetery Halifax Nova Scotia Canada on Monday 6th May 1912. |
© Bob Knuckle, Canada
Mr Robert Douglas Norman, 28, from Glasgow worked as an electrical engineer for A.E.G Electric Co., 50 Wellington Street, Glasgow.
He boarded the Titanic at Southampton as a second class passenger (ticket number 218629, £13 10s).
On the evening of April 14th Douglas played the piano at a at a hymn service presided over by Rev Ernest Carter. After the collision Norman met Kate Buss and Marion Wright, he told them the ship had struck an iceberg but he assured them there was no danger.
Douglas died in the sinking, his body recovered by the MacKay Bennett and he was buried at Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia on 6 May 1912.
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NO. 287. - MALE. - ESTIMATED AGE, 32. FAIR - HAIR, HIGH FOREHEAD. CLOTHING - Dark trousers and vest; no coat; green striped flannel shirt; no boots. EFFECTS - Gold watch and chain; sovereign purse with £5; £4 8s. 6d. loose; thirty one cents in foreign coins; pocket knife and diary. NAME - ROBERT D. NORMAN. |
Documents
Record of Bodies and Effects: Passengers and Crew, S.S. Titanic (Public
Archives of Nova Scotia)
(#287)
Sources
Marriages, Births, Deaths and Injuries, White Star 1912 and Board of Trade 1912,
PRO London - BT 100/260
Acknowledgements
Hermann Söldner, Germany
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