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Surname
RUSSELL
Forename
Robert
Day
16
Month
01
Year
1941
Age
34
Occupation
Hewer
Mine/Quarry Name
Douglas Castle
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Wilson's & Clyde Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Douglas
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
16 January 1941: Drowned In Mine. - A peculiarly sad accident took place at Douglas Castle Colliery on Thursday morning. It seems that two men were engaged “redding up” a heading, and a sudden inrush of water from an adjoining heading occurred. As a sad consequence Robert Russell (34), miner, who resided at 61 Ayr Road, Douglas, was almost instantly drowned. Russell, although not a native of Douglas, had resided here for several years, and was a married man with a family of five young children. A very sad fact was that his wife, a Douglas woman, gave birth to a baby only, a few days before this mishap. At the funeral on Saturday members of the Observer Corps, of which Russell was an active member, turned out and marched at the side of the hearse, and carried the coffin to the graveside. Fellow workers and the mine management attended the funeral. [Muirkirk Advertiser 23 January 1941]