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.
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