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Surname
MURPHY
Forename
James
Day
15
Month
02
Year
1940
Age
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Bowhill, No.2 Shaft
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Auchterderran
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
15 February 1940: Formal verdicts were also returned in the following cases:- James Murphy, coal miner, 32 Eighteenth Street, Bowhill, who died on February 15 in Kirkcaldy Hospital from injuries received on. February 13 in the underground workings No. 2 Pit, Bowhill Colliery, caused the framework a haulage-wheel falling on him. [Evening Telegraph 23 May 1940]