Joseph Francis Akerman was a pantry steward on the Titanic. He and his brother died in the sinking. He was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England on May 14th, 1874. He was the son of Joseph Akerman (1845-1914) and Fanny Palmer (1845-1925), both Wiltshire natives who had married in there in 1871. Joseph had had least five siblings: William Henry (b. 1872), Eliza (b. 1875), Arthur Wallace (b. 1877) Albert Edward (b. 1880) and Alice Maud (b. 1882). Joseph is also remembered on the St Augustine Church Memorial, Southampton.