Walter William Binstead was a trimmer of the Titanic. He survived the sinking. He was the son of Charles Binstead (1849-1914) and Caroline Jane Silvester (1853-1917). His father was from Bitterne, Southampton and his mother from the Isle of Wight and they had married in Southampton in 1872. Walter was one of seventeen children born to his parents, eight of whom survived infancy. His known siblings were: Eliza Letitia Jane (b. 1873), Caroline Charlotte (b. 1875), Laura (b. 1880), Matilda Florence (b. 1883), Charles Thomas (b. 1886), Alice Mary (b. 1888) and James Peter (b. 1890).