Age: 6
Sex: male
Date: 8 Dec 1941
Place: Westleigh, Colesdown Hill, Billacombe
Michael Strange was run over by a lorry on the morning of 8 December 1941.
He was taken to the Prince of Wale's Hospital in Greenbank, Plymouth in a Plymouth St. John Ambulance, where he was certified as dead. His post-mortem revealed that his death was due to a fracture of the skull and laceration of the brain. It was also stated that Michael Strange would have died immediately after his collision with the lorry.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Western Morning News - Saturday 03 January 1942, p5
see Western Morning News - Tuesday 09 December 1941
see Western Morning News - Saturday 13 December 1941
see Western Morning News - Saturday 20 December 1941
see Unsolved 1941