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Surname
DEVINE
Forename
Bernard
Day
28
Month
05
Year
1923
Age
36
Occupation
Machineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Dechmont
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Archibald Russell Ltd
Location
Cambuslang
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
28 May 1923: A miner named Bernard Devine, who resided at Tabernacle Street, Cambuslang, was engaged yesterday morning working a coal-cutting machine in Messrs Archibald Russell and Company’s Dechmont Colliery, Cambuslang, when he was caught in the mechanism and so terribly mutilated that he died shortly afterwards. Devine was 36 years of age and leaves a wife and family. [Glasgow Herald 29 May 1923]