Age: 8
Sex: female
Date: 12 Jul 1945
Place: Holyrood Road, Canongate, Edinburgh
Phyllis Elizabeth Merritt was found dead in an air-raid shelter between St John's Hill and Holyrood Road in Canongate, Edinburgh on 12 July 1945.
She had received extensive head injuries and was found lying in a pool of blood. The walls of the air-raid shelter were also found to have been bloodstained.
see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Wednesday 03 October 1945
see Gloucestershire Echo - Friday 13 July 1945
see Daily Record - Friday 13 July 1945
see The Scotsman - Wednesday 03 October 1945
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 02 October 1945
see Daily Record - Friday 13 July 1945
see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Friday 13 July 1945
see Daily Record - Wednesday 03 October 1945
see Dundee Courier - Wednesday 03 October 1945
see Unsolved 1945
