Full Details
- Surname
- CAIRNS
- Forename
- Thomas
- Day
- 11
- Month
- 01
- Year
- 1940
- Age
- Occupation
- Ash boy
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Easton
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- Bairds & Scottish Steel Ltd
- Location
- Bathgate
- County
- Linlithgowshire
- Details of Event
- Thomas Cairns, ash-boy, 19 Glenmavis Drive, Bathgate, died on 11 January 1940 within a gum bunker at Easton Colliery, Bathgate, when he was buried by a quantity of gum.