Full Details
- Surname
- PORTEOUS
- Forename
- John
- Day
- 16
- Month
- 07
- Year
- 1961
- Age
- Occupation
- Miner
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Glencairn
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- National Coal Board
- Location
- Prestonpans
- County
- Haddingtonshire
- Details of Event
- John Porteous, miner, 9 Hope Place, Tranent, died on 16 July 1961 at Glencairn Colliery, Longniddry, East Lothian, when he was hit between the shoulders by a falling stone"