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Surname
PRESTON
Forename
Rhoderick
Day
16
Month
03
Year
1944
Age
60
Occupation
Brusher
Mine/Quarry Name
Bedlay
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Bairds & Scottish Steel Ltd
Location
Glenboig
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
16 March 1944: Miner Killed - Rhoderick Preston (60). Brusher, of Baillieston, was fatally injured in Bedlay Colliery, Lanarkshire, last night, and the miners are idle to-day He was caught by a runaway hutch. [Evening Telegraph 17 March 1944]