Person    | Male  Born 1886  Died 15/4/1912

Arthur John Rous

Categories: Engineering, Tragedy

Plumber 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 in the Cenotaph Section 125, Plot 202, at the Southampton Old Cemetery, Cemetery Road, Southampton, SO15 7NN.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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