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Surname
FAICHNEY
Forename
James Jnr
Day
06
Month
06
Year
1919
Age
25
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Blairhall, Lord Bruce Pit
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Coltness Iron Co. Ltd
Location
East Grange
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
6 June 1919: Demobilised Soldier Killed in Fife Pit accident - James Faichney, jun., miner, Stirling Street, Tillicoultry, was killed in the five-feet seam of the Lord Bruce pit, Blairhall colliery. He was clearing away, a fall of redd when a second fall took place. An hour and a half elapsed before the body was recovered. It was Faichney's first day in the pit after demobilisation from the Army. He had been a prisoner of war. [Scotsman 12 June 1919] Fife Miner Killed - On the first day of his return to the mines after demobilisation, Jas. Faichney, a miner of 25 years of age, has been killed by a fall in Lord Bruce Pit, Blairhall Colliery, near Dunfermline. Faichney had been at work repairing a roadway where a fall had occurred, when the roof again gave way. He was buried and crushed, and when extricated, after and hour and a half of hard work on the part of his comrades, he was found to be dead. Deceased, whose whom is in Tillicoultry, was married 18 months ago. Returning to France after the ceremony he was taken prisoner by the Germans. The fatality occurred the first day he went below. [Dunfermline Journal 14 June 1919]