Can anyone help with regards to two mining incidents:
Two relatives were said to have been involved in a mining accident at Upton Colliery, Yorkshire which took place during the first week in June 1940. One of them survived but was injured, the other one - Jack Foster - died twelve days later in Pontefract Hospital. I have found a reference in Hansard which states that two people died initially, and one died later (accident date 4 June 1940). There is an article in the Barnsley Chronicle (June 1940) which refers to nine men having died. Jack's name is not there. I have looked on the Coal Mining History Resource Centre site - but there is no reference to this accident and I can't find any other information about it. Was Jack involved in the major accident - or had there been two accidents within a couple of days of each other?
The second relative (William Woolcott) died in 1944 following what seems like a second mining accident (Wombwell Main 26 June 1944) - but I can find no further information. It could be that he was (thankfully) the only person injured - and so it wasn't considered important.
On the Mining Victims UK site both men are listed on a page entitled "Roll of Honour" - but with no details/dates attached.
Can anyone shed any light onto these accidents?
