Person    | Male  Born 18/6/1887  Died 15/4/1912

William Young Moyes

Categories: Engineering, Tragedy

Countries: Scotland

Senior 6th 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 and on the family cenotaph at Valley Cemetery, Stirling, Scotland.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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