The arrival of Wallace Hartley’s body became a focal point … - Steve Turner

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The arrival of Wallace Hartley’s body became a focal point of national grief. This young man not only represented all who had died on the Titanic, but also the values that the British feared were in decline.

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Steve Turner is a music journalist, biographer and poet, who grew up in Northamptonshire, England.

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“If any glory at all attaches to the awful tragedy of the sea about which the world is still talking, it circles round the heads of these heroic bandsmen who played the mighty vessel to its doom

In the whole history of the sea, there is little to equal the wonderful behavior of these humble players.

Not only had they behaved dutifully and without apparent concern for their own safety, but they also offered the hope that not all of the younger male generation were venial, lazy, proud, irreligious, inconsiderate, self-indulgent, weak-willed, and timorous.

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