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On This Day

21

Nov
2017

In On This Day

By Nicola Gauld

On This Day, 21 November 1917

On 21, Nov 2017 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld

Birmingham Daily Post

Wednesday 21 November 1917

BIRMINGHAM GIRL MISSING

A Birmingham girl, Annie Saxton, of 87, Bakers Road, Small Heath, has been missing from home since the 13th inst. She is 15 years of age, tall, well-built, of fair complexion, and has blue eyes, full face, even features, and light brown hair (usually worn loose). When she left home she was wearing a navy blue woollen knitted cap, with two green bands, a mixed tweed costume of grey appearance, brown blouse, fawn-coloured raincoat, black lace boots, and black stockings, but when last seen is said to have been riding a bicycle and wearing a long brown cloth coat.