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William Dornan

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William Dornan (c1895 – 28 May 1937) was a Scottish football player, who played 357 times for Hibernian at left back. He was badly injured on May 28, 1937 after being thrown from the top of an oil tank after an explosion, and thereafter being badly burned, at Pumpherston Oil Works in West Lothian. He died later at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ http://www.scottishshale.co.uk/Scrapbooks/SBSport/SBFootball/WilliamDornan.html. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
  2. ^ Trapped Between Two Blazing Oil Tanks, Dundee Evening Telegraph, May 28, 1937