A 102-year-old great-gran has spoken of her “relief” after discovering the grave of her stillborn baby – 76 years after she fell pregnant. Marjorie Rigby found out she was having her first child after marrying her hero husband Charlie, who fought for five years in Italy and Africa during World War Two.
The retired secretary, who had also worked in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, headed to a private nursing clinic to have the baby, named Laura, in September 1946. Tragically, after spending three days in labour, she overheard her consultant doctor say that the baby had in fact passed away.
Marjorie was rushed to a hospital for the birth, where she told by staff that the deceased child would be taken to an “incinerator” for burial. She was never told what happened to her baby after the stillbirth.
