Ernest Clifford Melville

Unsolved Murders

Age: 37

Sex: male

Date: 22 Jan 1949

Place: High Street, Swansea, Wales

Ernest Melville was found beaten to death on a bombed site off High Street, Swansea on 22 January 1949.

His body was found at about 2pm on a bombed site close to a disused air-raid shelter off High Street on a stretch of ground between Dyfatty School and the park in Croft Street.

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

see news.bbc.co.uk

see National Archives - MEPO 3/3125

see Western Daily Press - Monday 24 January 1949

see Western Mail - Thursday 27 January 1949

see Western Mail - Friday 28 January 1949

see Western Mail - Thursday 03 February 1949

see Western Mail - Thursday 10 February 1949

see Western Mail - Monday 24 January 1949

see True Crime Library

see Wales Online

see BBC

see Unsolved 1949