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Surname
CLINTON
Forename
Neil
Day
23
Month
12
Year
1921
Age
24
Occupation
Brusher
Mine/Quarry Name
Ayr, No.1 Drumley Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
William Baird & Co. Ltd
Location
Annbank
County
Ayrshire
Details of Event
23 December 1921: Gilbert Thomson, 28, and Neil Clinton, 24, were killed yesterday at Drumley Colliery, near Ayr, by a fall of stone. [The Times 24 December 1921] Ayrshire Pit Accident – Two Brushers Killed - Drumley No.1 Pit, near Annbank Station (Ayrshire), was the scene of a distressing accident yesterday morning, two young married miners being so seriously injured that they died. Archibald Thomson, Gilbert Thomson, Neil Clinton , and a boy named James Lees were engaged brushing a horse road in the pit, when a stone, weighing about two tons, came away from the roof, and pinned Gilbert Thomson, Annbank, and Neil Clinton , who resided at Mossbloom, to the ground. The remaining two, who had a narrow escape, raised the alarm, and on the injured men being released, Clinton died almost immediately, and Thomson was removed to Ayr County Hospital, where he died several hours later. [Scotsman 24 December 1921]