Age: 2
Sex: female
Date: 25 Jan 1917
Place: River Wear, Deptford, Sunderland
Ivy McCann died from neglect in Sunderland on 25 January 1917.
She died from pneumonia. Her body was found on the river bank at Deptford in a soldier's kit bag, in which there were two pieces of iron. It was found by a shipwright lying on the Corporation tip by the river on the Saturday morning at about 9.20am.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Saturday 03 March 1917
see Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough - Saturday 03 February 1917
see Newcastle Journal - Tuesday 30 January 1917
see Unsolved 1917
