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FUNERAL OF A TITANIC VICTIM IN CORNWALL

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Cornish Funeral

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[Over a] thousand persons attended the funeral at St. Ives of William Carbines, [a] nineteen-year-old boy who perished in the Titanic disaster. [He] was embalmed and brought to St. Ives so that he might be laid to rest among his own people. (1) The scene in the little churchyard overlooking the Atlantic where the body was buried. (2) Mourners carrying wreaths. (3) Carbines — (Vaughan T.W. Paul.)

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Encyclopedia Titanica (2003) FUNERAL OF A TITANIC VICTIM IN CORNWALL (Daily Mirror, Friday 31st May 1912, ref: #1912, published 21 November 2003, generated 7th December 2024 05:48:31 PM); URL : https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/funeral-titanic-victim-cornwall.html