London It was one of the most haunting tales to emerge from the Titanic disaster.
While others rushed to the lifeboats as the ship sank, millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim stoically sat sipping beverage with his personal secretary Victor Giglio, declaring they were "prepared to go down like gentlemen".
"No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim was a coward," he told a survivor.
Photo found
Now, for the first time, a face can be put to the name of Giglio.
An archivist at Ampleforth, the North Yorkshire boarding school he attended, has unearthed a picture of him aged 12.
The photograph — taken in 1901, 11 years before he died on the Titanic — shows Giglio, the son of an Italian father and Egyptian mother, dressed in his school uniform for a group shot. Unlike the much-photographed US industrialist Guggenheim, who died aged 46, no photographs of Giglio were believed to exist.
But after the Maritime Museum in Liverpool appealed for information about Giglio to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking, Fr Anselm Cramer, the archivist and librarian at Roman Catholic boarding school Ampleforth, uncovered the lost image in the school's files.
Tributes to Giglio
He also found tributes to Giglio, who was the youngest of four brothers born in Liverpool to an Italian father and Egyptian mother, in the school's journal from 1912 and 1913.
One, from then Ampleforth headmaster Father Edmund Matthews, said: "Those who knew Giglio at school will not require any assurance that he met death bravely..."
One of his schoolmates added at the time: "I did not expect to see his name in the list of survivors. Giglio was unlikely to be saved when any were lost."
In a further journal a year on from the disaster Giglio's mother is reported to have presented the school with books and music as a memorial to her son, who was a talented pianist.
