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John Boslem

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Date: 4 Jun 1918

Place: Skaithmuir Road, Carronshore, Falkirk

John Boslem died when a railway waggon that he was on overturned on the Carron Company mineral line between Carron works and Carronhall Colliery.

It was found that someone had placed a piece of slag between some points on the line which resulted in them being neither open nor shut and which caused the waggon to overturn.


*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Aberdeen Evening Express - Tuesday 04 June 1918

see Falkirk Herald - Saturday 11 May 1918

see Southern Reporter - Thursday 06 June 1918

see Daily Record - Tuesday 04 June 1918

see Unsolved 1918