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Surname
GILLESPIE
Forename
Robert
Day
04
Month
11
Year
1934
Age
25
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Shields
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Glasgow Iron & Steel Co. Ltd
Location
Motherwell
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
4 November 1934: Motherwell Miner Killed In Pit - Robert Gillespie (25), a miner, 11 Draffan Bank, Merry Street, Motherwell, was killed by a fall from the roof in the ell coal section at Shields Colliery, Motherwell, yesterday. His companions, in attempting to extricate him, were hampered and endangered by a subsequent fall of material, but after much work they got him out. He had been killed instantaneously. Gillespie leaves a widow and one child. [Scotsman 5 November 1934]