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Surname
BROWN
Forename
David
Day
10
Month
04
Year
1940
Age
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Bowhill
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Fife Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Auchterderran
County
Fifeshire
Details of Event
10 April 1940: A similar verdict [formal] was returned in an inquiry into the death of David Brown, coal miner, 12 Square, Cardenden. Brown died on April 10 in Kirkcaldy Hospital from toxaemia, cardiac failure and tetanus infection, resulting from a wound to his left hand sustained on March 22 during his occupation in the underground working Bowhill Colliery. [Evening Telegraph 23 May 1940]