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(Photo: PA/ Unknown author, Wikimedia Commons) THE COUNTY OF WORCESTERSHIRE has a lot of links and ties to the tragedy of the Titanic. The anchor ship itself was made in Worcestershire and a lot of former Worcestershire residents also boarded the ship. One such passenger was Francis Millet who met his tragic demise on the ship when it sunk in 1912. While he was born and bred in America, he did spend some of his later years in Broadway in the Cotswolds living with his family.
Early life Francis was the son of a surgeon, born in Massachusetts in 1846. Before becoming a painter, he fought in the Civil War alongside his father and he was later a drummer boy with the Union forces and then became became a surgical assistant.