This Memorial was unveiled by Matt Smith & John Higgins Ex-Polmaise miners 2nd July 1994 This monument is dedicated to the miners who worked and died in Polmaise 3 and 4 Collieries 1906 Hugh Jackson age 40 1907 George Davidson age 55 1907 William Smith age 19 1908 Richard Brown 29 1909 William Mooney 15 1909 John McVicar age 38 1909 John Hilley age 37 1910 Archibald Kerr age 28 1910 John Anderson age 34 1910 Patrick Kaney age 20 1913 William Malcolmson age 17 1914 David Livingstone age 38 1914 John Marshall age 35 1915 Peter Stewart age 34 1918 William McNaughton age 56 1918 Thomas Clyde age 42 1920 John McConnell age 21 1920 Michael Ketterick age 54 1922 John Moore age 15 1923 Thomas McEwan age 42 1923 Robert Orr age 38 1924 David Perry age 27 1925 Alexander Morton age 43 1925 William Johnstone age 30 1926 Charles Robb age 35 1928 Andrew McGoogan age 53 1928 Robert Sommerville age 38 1931 William Hutton age 30 1933 Joseph Reilly age 23 1933 Ellis McDonald age 35 1934 John Samson age 21 1934 William Quinn age 32 1934 George Forbes age 42 1934 Samuel Hamilton age 43 1934 Walter Agnew age 27 1934 George Kerr age 51 1936 Francis Smith age 58 1936 Alexander Ferguson age 58 1936 William Robertson age 18 1938 William Weir age 51 1941 William Kerr age 38 1942 Thomas Rodger age 40 1942 Francis Rooney age 36 1943 Alexander Rennie age 71 1943 James Dawson age 52 1946 James Muir age 54 1947 David Allan age 49 1948 Henry Lynch age 70 1949 Peter Ben Kaat age 25 1953 William Mason age 42 1955 James Morrison age 31 1956 Robert Brown age 42 1958 Alexander Ewing age 35 1960 John Forsyth age 35 1965 John Burns age 42 Their loss shall never grow dim | To the people of Cowie who in pursuance of their calling lost their lives in the collieries. Others also through injury and mining were hastened to an early grave. They served their pay unseen unsung in the caverns of the deep Till early laid They through the ages sleep Lest we forget A tribute to the people who lost their lives in the collieries And the women who shared their lives And suffered their loss Project of Cowie Community Council And Cowie Miners Welfare Opened by Rt Hon. Tony Benn 9th September 2006 NB No names on this memorial |