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Message: [QUOTE="Gaston Sam, post: 386512, member: 161856"] Not having found any single picture of him, I've been trying to identify him in any crew picture I could find. I ran into this picture shot in the aftermath of the disaster which shows some survivors of the crew:[ATTACH=full]3203[/ATTACH] [center][/center] Not all of them are deck crew members, but the first two or four (from left to right) certainly are. The second one is William Lucas, but the first man's identity was a mistery to me, so I tried identifying him by process of elimination based on all the available pictures I've seen so far. [ATTACH=full]3204[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]3205[/ATTACH] Eventually I found out he could mainly be either Walter Brice or James Anderson. Anderson was 40 and that's the only thing I could find on him. On the other hand, Walter Brice was 43 years old, 5' 6" tall, with light hair, grey eyes and a fresh complexion. That matches our fellow perfectly, and I can even prove the height based on the comparison with Samuel Hemming, which is the fourth from left to right in the same picture and was 5' 2¼" tall. Walter Brice also served in the Royal Navy which had moustaches as a requirement by that time. Then we have the famous picture took from the Carpathia of lifeboat 11: [ATTACH=full]3206[/ATTACH] The one guy in the bow holding the drop-ladder and a piece of rope could perfectly be an AB, and Walter Brice was aboard that lifeboat. He testified being at the tiller of the boat but he could have moved forward when they reached Carpathia. [/QUOTE]

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