Robert Henry Wright
| Age: | 44 |
| Died: | 10th Aug 1934 |
| Accident: | 10th Aug 1934 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1890 |
| Colliery: | Shankhouse |
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| Notes: | he died of shock from a lacerated wound of the chest wall involving the lung after an accidental underground explosion of Rockite, died in the Royal Victoria Infirmary [Inquest: 10 Aug 1934, 23 Aug 1934] |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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A chargeman was fatally injured at Shankhouse Colliery, Northumberland. Whilst firing with fuses three shot-holes at the face of a stone drift, he apparently had some difficulty in lighting the second fuse. Realizing that after the delay thus occasioned the first charge might explode, he attempted to retreat. When about 12 yards from the face he was struck by material projected by the first shot.
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| 10 Aug 1934 | Death After Injury (Sunderland Daily Echo) |
- 1934 Mines Inspectors Report
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Shelagh Wright
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01 May 2013 |
Robert Henry Wright is my husband's paternal grandfather. My husband and his sisters know nothing of this side of their family as their father moved south many decades ago.
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