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Roger Marie Joseph Léon Bricoux (1891 - 1912)

Roger Marie Joseph Léon (Roger) Bricoux
Born in Cosne-sur-Loire, Nièvre, Francemap
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Died at age 20 in Atlantic Oceanmap
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Biography

Roger Marie Joseph Léon Bricoux was born in Cosne-sur-Loire on the 1st of June, 1891. He is the son of Léon Félix, 33, a musician living a Monaco, and his wife Marie Rose Dherbier, 28. [1]

He became a musician like his father, and played the cello. In 1911 he lived at 28, Melbourne Street in Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom, as a boarder to the dressmaker Annie Jackson. He is listed as a cellist for the theatre.[2]

He then served on the Carpathia and the Mauretania, before joining the Titanic. At the time, he was listed as living at 5 Place du Lion-d'Or in Lille. Like the other members of the orchestra, he died in the sinking of the ship.[3]

After his death

Roger Bricoux was due for the French military service in October 1912. When he didn't show up he was declared a deserter. The error was only corrected in 1917. [4]

In 2000, a commemorative plate was put in his birth town of Cosne-sur-Loire [5]

Letters to his parents

On 17 March 1912, while serving aboard the RMS Carpathia, he wrote a letter to his parents:

Dear Parents, Just a few quick words as the ship is about to reach Gibraltar and I had no time to write from Naples as we left for a tour of the city. You can tell Vissotty that I accept what he proposed me. As for Dad being ill, you told me in your letter your father is slightly ill, but you never told me he was suffereing from an illness that could prove grave. As for sending postcards I no longer can. We are going to New-York where I will board the Mauretania, the biggest ship in the world 32,000 tons and when in Liverpool, I will head for Southampton, where I will board the Titanic which will be launched on 10 April and will be the biggest ship in the world 50,000 tons it is a city: Turkish baths, bicycle (yeah, there's a bike on board), gymnasium, a swimming pool that is 100 metres long the ship is 945 metres long (English yard, which means over a French kilometre and only New York harbour can welcome us). I like this life a lot but I will be with you with great pleasure as for marrying, I will only marry a girl who will have money, in order to fit my tastes ... I'd better drown myself. I imagine love in silk linen or at least nothing less than a 'comfortable home' and not in an attic, with fear of starving the day after. Ambitious? maybe and why not and something tells me I ought to be for it is the only way to success. I send you my heart and I kiss you. Roger. Send me your letter on board the Carpathia, New-York (America). [6]

He sent another letter, written aboard the Mauretania.

Dear Dad, You will certainly think that I took too much time to send this letter but this is not my fault as I've been on the Mauretania for ten days and had no opportunity to post this letter. Well, this is why I'm writing: I want to kiss you very warmly and wish you all my best wishes and wish you good health. Vissotty wrote me that you were a little feeble at the moment but I hope it is nothing important and that my letter will find you in good health or else may it help you recover quickly.
The ship's vibrations are so irritating that I cannot write. Can you imagine, we run 400 miles a day, it is the world's record, one mile is 1837 metres, 5 days from New-York to Liverpool. Well, I'll send you a long letter from the Titanic, Southampton, England, I expect a letter from you in New York. [6]

Sources

  1. Acte de naissance de Roger Marie Joseph Léon Bricoux : Acte #79, Naissances 1891 Cosne-sur-Loire, Archives départementales de la Nièvre, 2 Mi EC 152. Consulté en ligne le 16 avril 2022. Permalien : https://archives.nievre.fr/ark:/60877/7dbwzk2jnq8r/b2c01645-9489-4e81-b8c3-e87c9a2d919d
  2. Roger Bricoux in 1911 England Census. The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey, England; Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911. Ancestry Sharing Link (free access)Ancestry Record 2352 #38022197 (subscription required, accessed 16 April 2022)
  3. Encyclopedia Titanica (2013) Roger Marie Bricoux (ref: #352, last updated: 25th July 2013, accessed 14th April 2022 21:29:56 PM) URL : https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/roger-bricoux.html
  4. Fiche Matricule de Roger Marie Joseph Léon Bricoux : Fiche #816 classe 1911 bureau de Nevers-Cosne, archives départemantales de la Nièvre R 393. Consulté en ligne le 16 avril 2022. Permalien : https://archives.nievre.fr/ark:/60877/5vqb8x0n7mjs/2ca45332-0fda-4526-8ca8-aa55b5682b06
  5. Roger Bricoux. (2021, décembre 26). Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Page consultée le 22:50, décembre 26, 2021 à partir de http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger_Bricoux&oldid=189253513.
  6. 6.0 6.1 Behe, George. On Board RMS Titanic: Memories of the Maiden Voyage, Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2012.




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