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Surname
HENDERSON
Forename
Andrew Galloway Coventry
Day
07
Month
01
Year
1940
Age
24
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Frances
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Dysart
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
7 January 1940: Died 26 Months After. - A similar verdict [formal verdict] was returned by the Sheriff after inquiry into the death of Andrew Henderson, a 24-year-old miner, residing at The Cross, West Wemyss. Henderson died 26 months after being injured in a pit accident at the Frances Colliery, Dysart. When employed there as a miner in October 1937, he received a fractured spine through a stone falling from the roof. He lay paralysed in hospital until February, 1939 when he was taken home, where he died on January 7, 1940. [Evening Telegraph 15 March 1940]