Hartley - Keighley Road Cemetery - Colne, UK
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N 53° 51.388 W 002° 09.443
30U E 555422 N 5967881
This broken column headstone was raised in memory of Wallace Hartley the band leader on the maiden voyage of the S. S. Titanic.
Waymark Code: WMHXVK
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/25/2013
Views: 1
After the S. S. Titanic was struck by the iceberg, the band continued to play, to keep the passengers calm while they boarded the life rafts. None of the band members survived the disaster.
As well as being the band leader, Hartley was an accomplished violinist and when his body was found in the sea, it had his violin case strapped round his shoulders.
There is a relief carving of a violin at the base of the gravestone together with some words from the hymn "Nearer My God To Thee" which he is reputed to have introduced to the congregation of his local church.
Because of his link with the S. S. Titanic someone has placed a small plastic model of the ship on the shaft of the violin.
Headstone/Monument Text:
IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
WALLACE HENRY,
THE BELOVED SON OF
ALBION AND ELIZABETH
HARTLEY
FORMERLY OF COLNE
WHO LOST HIS LIFE IN THE
S.S. TITANIC DISASTER
ON APRIL 15TH 1912
AGED 33 YEARS
AND WAS INTERRED
ON MAY 18TH 1912.
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