Auchengeich Mining Disaster: a Virtual Cemetery

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Auchengeich Mining Disaster

47 miners died at Auchengeich Colliery on 18 September 1959. My own uncle Patrick McKeown, buried in Kilsyth, worked at the colliery at the time and knew many of the deceased personally. He was interviewed in 1999 on the 50th anniversary.

12 memorials

Thomas Bone

unknown – 18 Sep 1959

Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire, Scotland

Francis Broadley Flowers have been left.

1920 – 18 Sep 1959

Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, Scotland

William Brynes

unknown – 18 Sep 1959

Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire, Scotland

James Devine

unknown – 18 Sep 1959

Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire, Scotland

Richard Hamilton

unknown – 18 Sep 1959

Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire, Scotland

James Harvey

unknown – 18 Sep 1959

Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire, Scotland

Patrick “Pat” Harvey Flowers have been left.

24 Mar 1926 – 18 Sep 1959

Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, Scotland

Frank Kiernan

unknown – 18 Sep 1959

Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, Scotland

Alexander Lang Flowers have been left.

unknown – 18 Sep 1959

Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire, Scotland

Gerald Martin

unknown – 18 Sep 1959

Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, Scotland

John Mulholland

unknown – 18 Sep 1959

Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, Scotland

Donald Weir

unknown – 18 Sep 1959

Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, Scotland