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Charles Laing |
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Carnegie Hero Fund - Honorary Certificate | |||
| Date: | 1943 | ||
| Colliery: | Burnopfield Colliery | ||
| Occupation: | Miner | ||
Pluck In The Mine
Carnegie Hero Fund trustees have awarded a certificate and £20 to Charles Laing (57), miner, of Hobson, County Durham. Laing at great personal risk supported a fellow workman trapped between the cage and the guides in a pit shaft at Hobson.
Laing climbed the buntings and tied the man to the guides. Had he slipped both would have fallen 3,666 feet to the pit bottom.
Source: Northern Daily Mail (30 Mar 1943)
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