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Surname
FALCONER
Forename
Andrew
Day
26
Month
04
Year
1915
Age
11
Occupation
Boy
Mine/Quarry Name
Cadzow
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Cadzow Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Hamilton
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
26 April 1915: Boy Drowned in a Colliery Pond - The Lanarkshire police reported yesterday the death by drowning the previous afternoon of Andrew Falconer (11), 65 Augustine Street, Cadzow, near Hamilton. The boy had gone to Cadzow Colliery with his father's dinner and shortly after he had handed it over the father and other workers heard shouts that the boy Falconer had fallen into a fence-protected pond, the water in which is 12 feet deep. Bubbles were seen on the surface of the water; and with grappling irons the body was recovered. Artificial respiration was immediately applied, but all efforts proved unavailing. [Scotsman 27 April 1915]