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Chief Purser Hugh McElroy
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12 year old Hugh McElroy
(Credit: unknown)
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16 year old Hugh in 1890 as a priest-in-training at St Mary's Priory, Bodmin, Cornwall.
(Source: "Death of a Purser" by Frank McElroy)
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McElroy circa 1901 aboard the Cymric in his new role as Purser.
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McElroy in an undated studio photograph.
(Courtesy of Joan O'Brien)
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Hugh McElroy in Purser’s uniform, showing the ribbon for the Transport Medal with the South African clasp, in 1909. (Courtesy of Joan O'Brien)
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McElroy in an undated photograph.
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McElroy and his "wireless parrot" as depicted in an article in the
The Fort Wayne Sentinel dated 28 Jul 1910.
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Another photograph of McElroy and possibly his "wireless parrot" aboard the Adriatic in 1910.
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McElroy on the occasion of his marriage to Barbara, October 1910.
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McElroy aboard the Olympic in an early 1911 photograph.
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McElroy aboard the Olympic in the officers group photograph, 1911.
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McElroy aboard the Olympic in the officers group photograph, 1911.
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McElroy aboard the Olympic
in his white summer uniform, 1911.
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McElroy aboard the Olympic in his
white summer uniform, 1911.
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McElroy aboard the Olympic in his
white summer uniform, 1911.
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McElroy aboard the Titanic, likely on the 10th April 1912.
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McElroy aboard the Titanic, 11th April 1912, in the last known photograph of him.
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A close up newspaper mug shot taken on the 11th of April 1912 on
Titanic's starboard boat deck while they were
at Queenstown, Ireland.
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