Elizabeth Mary McLaughlan

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Elizabeth Mary McLaughlan

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Title
Elizabeth Mary McLaughlan
Location
Pontypridd

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00:00:05 Introduction

00:00:46 Elizabeth (known as Dolly) is born in Liverpool, 1906

00:01:04 Remembering the day the news arrived that her father, William Moss, a First Class Saloon Steward for the White Star Line, had gone down with the sinking of the Titanic

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/william-moss.html

00:05:06 In the aftermath of her father’s death, Elizabeth moves to the South Side suburbs of Glasgow and later works in a private library

00:06:21 Elizabeth has an unwanted encounter with a previous fiancé

00:10:14 Elizabeth is struck blind

00:13:10 In the aftermath of the Titanic disaster, Elizabeth describes how the White Star Line compensated the family

00:13:49 Elizabeth gets married in June 1939 to George

00:14:25 George gets called up to the RAF but luckily spends the war in Scotland; the couple have a son, Graham

00:17:44 Elizabeth comes to Pontypridd due to her son working in South Wales

00:18:00 Elizabeth visits the Titanic prior to its departure; her father has reservations about the Titanic and attempts but fails to avoid the voyage

00:19:44 RECORDING COMES TO AN ABRUPT END

Interview details

Interviewee name
Elizabeth Mary McLaughlan
Interviewer
Gareth Gill
Interview/filmed date
06/09/2005

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