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Amy Fish

Age: 19

Sex: female

Date: 15 Dec 1917

Place: Cargo Fleet, South Bank, Middlesborough

Amy Fish was found dead in an outhouse in Middlesborough. She was naked.

She was found dead in a shed at the bottom of an allotment garden at Cargo Fleet.

She was from Treforest in Pontypridd, and had been the wife of a man serving in Egypt but had left her 5-week-old child in the care of her mother and gone off with a soldier from Manchester to Newcastle and then to South Bank near Middlesborough.

She was said to have worked in munition works in various towns. It was thought that she had arrived in Middlesborough about five weeks earlier.

It was heard that whilst in Newcastle that she had been sentenced to a month's imprisonment for vagrancy, having slept all night in a churchyard.

Medical evidence showed that she had suffered from a disease that might have caused her to lose control of her actions.

A police surgeon said that it was possible that her death had been due to exposure.

She had been with a soldier the night before she was discovered dead, but he said that he knew nothing of the tragedy.


*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Derry Journal - Friday 04 January 1918

see Western Daily Press - Friday 04 January 1918

see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Thursday 03 January 1918

see Derry Journal - Friday 04 January 1918

see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Friday 21 December 1917

see Lancashire Evening Post - Friday 21 December 1917