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  Disasters - Names Disasters - Names  
Date:  25th September 1923
Colliery:  Redding
Cause:  Inrush of water from old workings
Lives Lost:  40

 Adams, James, residence: Polmont , body recovered on 22nd November
 Aitken, Thomas, Fireman, residence: Redding , body recovered on 14th October
 Anderson, Andrew, residence: California, body recovered on 5th October
 Anderson, William, residence: California, son of Andrew, body recovered on 10th October
 Baxter, John, residence: Reddingmuirhead, body recovered on 15th November
 Beekman, John, residence: Falkirk , body recovered on 22nd November
 Bennie, David, residence: Brightons , body recovered on 22nd November
 Beveridge, Robert, residence: Reddingmuirhead , body recovered on 22nd November
 Bonar, Thomas, residence: Laurieston , body recovered on 15th November
 Brown, Andrew, residence: Wallacestone , body recovered on 22nd November
 Brown, David, residence: Redding, nephew of Thomas Brown, body recovered on 16th October
 Brown, Thomas, residence: Wallacestone, body recovered on 25th September
 Cochrane, James, residence: Redding, body recovered on 3rd December
 Donaldson, William, residence: Reddingmuir, body recovered on 11th November
 Forrester, John, residence: Redding, body recovered on 25th September
 Hamilton, Alexander, residence: Wallacestone , body recovered on 7/8th November
 Hannah, James, residence: Reddingmuirhead , body recovered on 14th October
 Jarvie, James, Fireman, residence: Reddingmuirhead, body recovered on 22nd November
 Kilgannon, Thomas, residence: Falkirk, not meant to be working - he was standing in for a friend, body recovered on 14th October
 Marrs, James, residence: Shieldhill , body recovered on 7/8th November
 Maxwell, Colin, jun., residence: Wallacestone , body recovered on 22nd November
 Maxwell, Colin, snr., residence: Wallacestone , body recovered on 15th November
 Maxwell, Walter, residence: Polmont, son of Colin, body recovered on 20th November
 McGarvie, Frank, residence: Falkirk, body recovered on 5th October
 McKenna, Michael, residence: Falkirk, body recovered on 5th October
 McLaughlin, Michael, residence: Falkirk , body recovered on 22nd November
 McNee, Archibal, residence: Redding, body recovered on 20th November
 Porteous, David, residence: Redding, body recovered on 25th September
 Scobbie, Laurence T., residence: Shieldhill , body recovered on 7/8th November
 Shields, Patrick, residence: Falkirk , body recovered on 14th October
 Thomson, David, snr., residence: Shieldhill , body recovered on 7/8th November
 Thomson, Henry, residence: Polmont , body recovered on 22nd November
 Thomson, Lawrence, residence: Shieldhill, son of David, body recovered on 7/8th November
 Thomson, Robert, residence: Brightons , body recovered on 22nd November
 Thomson, Thomas, residence: Falkirk , body recovered on 22nd November
 Thomson, Thomas, residence: Reddingmuir, body recovered on 14th October
 Thomson, Thomas, residence: Falkirk , body recovered on 7/8th November
 Wright, John Lennie, residence: Wallacestone, body recovered on 20th October
 
38 of 40 names found
 
Survived
 Donaldson, John, pulled up alive on the 4th October
 Jack, James, pulled up alive on the 4th October
 Miller, John, pulled up alive on the 4th October
 Thomson, Andrew, pulled up alive on the 4th October
 Ure, Robert, pulled up alive on the 4th October

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