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Surname
DONALDSON
Forename
Matthew
Day
28
Month
02
Year
1920
Age
59
Occupation
Haulage Dook Engineman
Mine/Quarry Name
Bowhill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Auchterderran
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
28 February 1920: Bowhill - Sudden Death - While on his way to work last Saturday morning, about 5.30am, Matthew Donaldson, haulage dook engineman, employed in No.1 Pit, Bowhill Colliery, dropped down and expired immediately. He had called at the lamp cabin for his lamp before going to the pithead, and while in the act of getting his lamp he suddenly collapsed. He was removed to the ambulance room which is close by, where Dr A Walker, who had been hastily summoned, pronounced that death had taken place. Deceased was 59 years of age, of a quiet disposition, though not of robust appearance. He leaves a widow and grown-up family, who reside at No 3, Eighth Street, Bowhill. [Dunfermline Journal 6 March 1920]