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Surname
FITZGERALD
Forename
George
Day
12
Month
10
Year
1912
Age
15
Occupation
Office boy
Mine/Quarry Name
Cannop
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Cannop Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Speech House Road
County
Gloucestershire
Details of Event
In getting down from a railway wagon on which he had climbed to ascertain what coal was in it, he struck the inside of his knee against the iron buffer and grazed the skin. He died 16 days afterwards from blood-poisoning.