On This Day, 12 May 1917

Birmingham Daily Post

Saturday 12 May 1917

TWO CHILDREN DROWNED IN BIRMINGHAM

Two children lost their lives by drowning at the Edgbaston Reservoir yesterday. About five o’clock Winifred Kathleen Griffin (8) and her sister Marjory (3), of 2 Victoria Terrace, Waterworks Road, were playing near the reservoir dam when they fell into the water. The accident was witnessed by a boy, who gave the alarm, and one of the employees at the reservoir, Edward Bird, and Police-constable Jones (B.165) ran to the spot, and in a short time recovered the children from the water. The police officer applied artificial means of respiration, but without avail, and Dr. Bunting, of Hagley Road, who had been sent for could only pronounce life extinct.