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Surname
LATTA
Forename
James
Day
11
Month
10
Year
1935
Age
21
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Highhouse
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bairds & Dalmellington Ltd
Location
Auchinleck
County
Ayrshire
Details of Event
11 October 1935: CUMNOCK MINER KILLED - James Latta (21), miner, Barrhill Road, Cumnock, while working in Highhouse Colliery, Auchinleck, was killed when his head struck the roof of the haulage road. [The Sunday Post 13 October 1935] Register of FAI - crushed between hutches and haulage road