Unknown Child (Titanic victim)

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Sidney Leslie Goodwin (9 September 1910 – 15 April 1912) was a 19-month-old British victim of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, whose body was later recovered by the Mackay-Bennett. Unidentified until 2007, Goodwin was previously widely known as the Unknown Child. For almost a century, Goodwin's gravestone in the Fairview Cemetery read "Erected to the memory of an unknown child whose remains were recovered after the disaster to the Titanic April 15th 1912". Initial DNA testing in 2002 pointed to third-class passenger Eino Viljami Panula as the Unknown Child's real identity. However, subsequent testing in 2007 conclusively identified the child's remains as those of fellow third-class toddler Sidney Leslie Goodwin.

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