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Bandsmen honoured 100 years on
Monday, 2nd April, 2012
TITANIC SERVICE: BIU band members Carol Nicolson, Dawn Mawby, Major Kelvin Stace, Ross Mawby with City Council’s General Manager Frank Zaknich at the memorial to the Titanic’s bandsmen in Sturt Park.
Broken Hill’s link with the RMS Titanic will be commemorated to mark the 100th anniversary of since the sinking of the grand luxury liner off Newfoundland on April 15, 1912.
The city is one of only two places in Australia that has a memorial dedicated to the bandsmen who famously continued to play as the ship went down, the other being Ballarat.
The Broken Hill memorial was officially unveiled on December 21, 1913 but the 100th anniversary of the ship’s tragic sinking will be recognised with a special service in Sturt Park on Sunday, April 15 at 12.30pm.
