David Sommerville

Role: Rope runner

Date of death: 08 Feb 1923

Cause of death: 1923 disaster

Age at death: 29

David Sommerville was born in the United States and immigrated to Canada, where he worked in the No. 4 mine in Cumberland as a rope runner. He was killed in the 1923 disaster, and was buried in the Cumberland cemetery in block 3-130.