Biography of herbert pitman

Third Officer Herbert Pitman
- Early Life

The village of Sutton Montis near Castle Cary,
Somerset, England. Photo © Graham Horn
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Herbert John Pitman was born in the village of Sutton Montis near Castle Cary, Somerset, England on Tuesday the 20th of November in the year 1877.

He was the son of farmer Henry Pitman (born circa 1813) and Sarah.A.

Mr Herbert John Pitman, 34, known as "Bert", was born 20 November in the village of Sutton Montis, Somerset, the son of Henry Pitman, a farmer and Sarah A.

Mr Herbert John Pitman, 34, known as "Bert", was born 20 November in the village of Sutton Montis, Somerset, the son of Henry Pitman, a farmer and Sarah A.

Herbert John "Bert" Pitman MBE was a British Merchant Navy seaman, who was the Third Officer of RMS Titanic when it sank in the North Atlantic Ocean with heavy loss of life after striking an iceberg during the night of 14 April on its maiden.

Herbert John Pitman was.

On the 7th of December , 84 year old Lieutenant-Commander Herbert John Pitman, MBE, RD, RNR, died of a subarachnoid haemorrhage, a rare form of stroke.

Altogether Pitman served more than 50 years at sea, and although he never received his own command, his length of time at sea is an impressive accomplishment in.

Pitman (née Marchant, born in 1851, Bloder, Somerset, England).

Frequently known as "Bert," his father Henry died when he was only three years old in 1880. In the same year, his sister Ida Mary Pitman was born at Sutton Montis, in Somerset.

Bert also had an elder brother, William Henry Pitman.

In 1881, a census shows a 4 year old Herbert Pitman living on a 112-acre (45 ha) farm on Sutton Road with his brother, sister, and widowed mother. With such a large farm it is perhaps not surprisingly that his 30 year old mother soon remarried to Albert Charles Candy (born in 1860, Kilmersdon, Somerse