I am trying to find information on the death of Harry Baker in March 1949 at Princess Royal Pit.
I have tried the coal mine history resource centre website with no luck. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I have been told that other miners had a collection to pay for the burial. Would this be usual?

What does the death cert tell you ?

Name: Harry H Baker
Death Registration Month/Year: 1949
Age at death (estimated): 33
Registration district: Forest of Dean
Inferred County: Gloucestershire
Volume: 7b
Page: 468

Year: 1916
Month: Mar
Day: 18
Parents_Surname: BAKER
Child_Forenames: Harry Harold
Fathers_Forenames: Harry Harold
Mothers_Forenames: Dorothy Annie
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Box Tree Cottage Bream
Occupation: Collier
Officiating_Minister: G W Leonard Cass
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes: Born 2 Mar 1916
Register_Reference: P57 IN 1/6
Page_Number: 68
Parish_Chapel: Bream

Year: 1949
Month: Mar
Day: 20
Surname: BAKER
Forenames: Harry Harold
Residence: 20 Parkend Rd.
Age_at_death: 33
Officiating_Minister: Charles Vernon
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death: Accident at Princess[?] Royal Died 17.3.49
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P57 IN 1/18
Page_No: 119
Parish_Chapel: Bream

from the Roll of Honour CD / Database

17/03/1949
Baker Harold
33
Princess Royal

Whilst moving conveyor forward he was struck by the falling of rock from the roof fracturing his neck.

The local newspapers will almost certainly have an article on this.

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster & Hereford Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>

His nickname was "spud or "spudie" & this info' was taken from a copy of Bob Adam's Diary. There is a good detailed write up of the inquest in the Dean Forest Guardian 25th March 1949. You can try the Citizen Office in Cinderford in their upstairs archive. Cinderford Library only copied the Dean Forest Mercury