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Surname
CUNNINGHAM
Forename
William John
Day
16
Month
06
Year
1924
Age
Occupation
Inspector
Mine/Quarry Name
Glencraig, No.1 Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wilson's & Clyde Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Lochgelly
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
16 June 1924: Lochore & Glencraig – Sudden Death - The death of John Cunningham, residing at 9 North Glencraig, took place in the early hours of Monday morning. Mr Cunningham left the house in his usual health to go on his shift on the afternoon shift on Sabbath in splint dook section in in Glencraig Colliery of No.1 Pit, Dunfermline Splint Dook. On the arrival of the night shift men the deceased was found in the dook road making an ineffective endeavour to crawl up. He was carried to the pit bottom and raised to the surface and taken home, where he expired half an hour later. The peculiar circumstances of the case are being much talked about. The deceased was an inspector in this section and was to attend a motor on this particular shift. He leaves a large family, two of which are married. [Dunfermline Journal 21 June 1924]