Age: 0
Sex: female
Date: 24 Dec 1948
Place: Walpole Bay, Margate, Kent
The body of a headless child was found on the shore between Walpole Bay and Newgate Gap in Margate on Christmas Eve 1948.
It was found by a man that had lived in Flint Row in Margate who had been walking alon the sands at about midday on Friday 24 December 1048. The body was unclothed and partially covered by seaweed. It was about 12 yards from the cliff and below the high water mark.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Thanet Advertiser - Tuesday 25 January 1949
see Thanet Advertiser - Friday 31 December 1948
see Unsolved 1948
