Returning to England on board the Adriatic Millvina enjoyed curiosity status in as much as so keen was the rivalry between women to nurse her that one of the officers decreed that First & Second class passengers could hold the 9 week old baby rescued from the sea for no longer than ten minutes each and they would need to stand in line if they wished to do so.

That such a tiny baby could come through an ordeal such as the Titanic tragedy was amazing. Many took photographs of her, her Mother and brother Bertram, some which were later published in contemporary newspapers.

On arrival back in England the family settled in Hampshire and was brought up on Bartley Farm by her mother and grandfather.

Millvina and her brother were raised and educated on various pension funds. Millvina attended Greggs School, Southampton.

For a long time Millvina thought her Grandfather was her Father and it wasn’t until her Mother Georgette planned to remarry that she was told of the tragic events of 15th April 1912, she was eight years old.

Millvina never married, working for the government during World War II by drawing maps, and later serving in the purchasing Department of a Southampton engineering firm.

Millvina along with fellow survivors, Eva Hart and Edith Haisman were guests of honour at the opening of the ‘Titanic Voices’ Exhibition at the Southampton Maritime Museum in 1992.

The extensive collection of memorabilia relating to The White Star Line and Titanic was provided by the Southampton City Council.

Sadly Eva Hart died in 1996 of Cancer and Edith Haisman died in 1997 of Pneumonia.

Ettie never traveled overseas again, she died age 95 in 1975.

Amongst her possessions Bertram and his wife Dorothy found a trunk with some old clothes including children’s,

‘I think they must have been the ones they had been wearing

that night’. Dorothy Dean

‘I don’t remember anything of the actual event. But I have lived it over

and over again as my mother told me’.

Sadly Bertram died in 1992.

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