Death
Lightoller died on 8 December 1952, aged 78, of chronic heart disease. A long time pipe smoker, he was living in London during that city's Great Smog of 1952 when he died from complications of his illness. His body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered at Mortlake Crematorium in Richmond, Surrey.
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