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Where would I find a report of a Hilda Teresa Graves age 4 who ran into the road and was killed in 1918 in London. Apprently the shock to her mother was so great the mother lost all her hair and then on in had to wear a wig. How terrible.

Have you checked the British newspaper archives? There is this preview, if relevant


Middlesex Chronicle London, England
9 Nov 1918

A CHILD’S FUNERAL
Sutherland,” Bath-road, laid to rest amid general manifestations of sympathy. A funeral service was first held St. Paul’s Church, at which the Vicar, the Rev. H. M. Eyton Jones, officiated, and afterwards committed the body to the grave at the cemetery

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Hilda's death reg
Deaths Dec 1918   (>99%)
GRAVES  Hilda T  4  Hammersmith  1a 539   

Det

Is the above this one?



Middlesex Chronicle London, England

23 Nov 1918

A CHILDS FUNERAL

A CHILDS FUNERAL. At the New Brentford Cemetery on Thursday, the interment took place of Mary Mavis Manley, aged years, the daughter of Lieutenant and Mrs. G. S. Manley, of 5, Bell-road, who succumbed to pneumonia, following an attack of influenza, on


Name:Mary M Manley

Birth Date:abt 1914

Date of Registration:Dec 1918

Age at Death:4

Registration district:Brentford

Inferred County:Middlesex

Volume:3a
Page:204


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Middlesex Chronicle London, England

9 Nov 1918

A CHILD’S FUNERAL

CHILD’S FUNERAL. Tuesday the New Brentford Cemetery, Sutton Lane, the body of Vera May, the little daughter Mr. and Mrs. Miller of Sutherland,” Bath-road, laid to rest amid general manifestations of sympathy. A funeral service was first held St. Paul’s

It was the 2nd one - obviously not relevant!

May be Margaret can request a search of extremely local papers to see if there was a mention. They may make a charge.

(Hammesmith and Fulham Local Studies and Archives)
http://tiny.cc/z8bv6x

How ever devistating for the family, it wouldn't necessarily make it into a newspaper.

Have you tried to contact other GR members who may be related? They may have been told something about the mother's alopecia. Search all members trees for Hilda, siblings if there were any and her parents.