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Surname
BOWHILL
Forename
Henry Lamb
Day
14
Month
02
Year
1914
Age
17
Occupation
Shaft Lad
Mine/Quarry Name
Rising Sun
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wallsend & Hebburn Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Wallsend
County
Northumberland
Details of Event
Deceased was engaged as a shaft lad at the bottom of a staple pit. He had charged a cage and shouted away, and then evidently tried to walk across the shaft bottom. He was killed by the other descending cage.