Full Details
- Surname
- ROOKE
- Forename
- James
- Day
- 30
- Month
- 03
- Year
- 1914
- Age
- 16
- Occupation
- Surface Lad
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Whitehaven, Ladysmith Pit
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- Whitehaven Colliery Co.
- Location
- Sandwith
- County
- Cumberland
- Details of Event
- Deceased had been assisting to fill tubs with cement when a set of wagons which were passing caught the tub and crushed him against a wall. He died on 5th April 1914.