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Surname
WARD
Forename
Matthew
Day
23
Month
05
Year
1933
Age
30
Occupation
Miner
Mine/Quarry Name
Gateside
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
Flemington Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Cambuslang
County
Lanarkshire
Details of Event
23 May 1933: Cambuslang Miner Killed - Struck by a runaway hutch in No.2 section of Gateside Colliery, Cambuslang, yesterday, a miner named Matthew Ward, aged 30 (unmarried), who resided with his widowed mother at 6 Gateside Buildings, Cambuslang, was knocked down and so severely injured that he died while being conveyed to Glasgow Royal Infirmary. [Scotsman 24 May 1933]