Person    | Male  Born 17/2/1873  Died 15/4/1912

James Muil Smith

Categories: Engineering, Tragedy

Countries: Scotland

Junior 4th Engineer on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website.

He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, Above Bar Street, Southampton, SO14 7DW, on the Titanic Memorial Plinth in the Titanic Memorial Gardens, Donegal Square East, Belfast, BT1 5QS, that shows 1,512 names of those who died in the disaster, on his wife's headstone at Section A1, Plot: 90 in St Marys Extra Cemetery, Portsmouth Road, Sholing, Southampton SO19 9BJ and on the family cenotaph at Section Elgin East, Lair: 354F + 355F in Elgin Cemetery, 98 Milnefield Avenue, Elgin, IV30 6EL, Scotland. 

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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