Wallace Hartley

Slow day on the Arsenal board with many people who seemingly have very little enchantment left in them. So I hoped to create this article based on new information published today in the Telegraph, regarding Wallace Hartley the Titanic band leader.

The Telegraph reports:
21 APRIL 2016 • 1:45PM
The Titanic's band leader was denied a holiday which could have saved his life by his "vindictive" employers, a letter from his parents has revealed.

The letter by Albion and Elizabeth Hartley to their son Wallace Hartley, who famously ordered musicians to carry on playing as ship went down, was written the day before the "unsinkable" liner left on its doomed maiden voyage in 1912. In it they criticised his employers for making him go straight from one cruise liner on to the Titanic without a proper break in between.

His father movingly signed off the letter with the words: "I hope that things will turn out for you alright."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/21/titanics-band-leader-was-denied-holiday-that-could-have-saved-hi/

Witnesses agree that the band played on till the end and it is certain that their memory will live as a memorial for generations to come. Hartley had once said that if he was on a sinking ship he would want his last song to be either “Nearer My God to Thee", a beautiful hymn composed by English Christian poet Sarah Adams.