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Tragically, Austin along with both James and Walter perished in the sinking.

In the following weeks, the cable-laying ship Mackay Bennett was dispatched from Halifax to the scene of the disaster recover the dead, and the first body recovered was identified as that of nine-year-old Walter.

Austin's body was recovered from the North Atlantic a few days later, but James was never found.

The two bodies recovered were sent to North Wales after being collected by Austin's father, and interred in the family plot at Union Cemetery at Zion Lutheran Church in nearby Flourtown, Pennsylvania.

Maud, devastated and heartbroken by the loss of her husband and two eldest children, was still determined to make a life for herself and her family in America, and in February 1913, Maud and her four remaining children sailed to New York aboard the White Star Line's Oceanic and settled in North Wales permanently.