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Awards for Gallantry
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Harry Bennetts |
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Edward Medal, First Class | |||
| Date: | 31 Dec 1909 | ||
| Colliery: | Randfontein South Gold Mine | ||
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Whitehall, May 20, 1910.
His Majesty The King has been pleased to award the Edward Medal of the First Class to Harry Bennetts.
On the 31st December, 1909, an explosion occurred in the Randfontein South Gold Mine at Krugersdorp, through the firing of a packet of gelatine, which gave rise to a suffusion of deadly gas. Four miners who were at work were killed by asphyxia due to the gas. Bennetts, with great courage and at imminent risk of his life, descended two winzes alone to the rescue of natives who had been overcome by the poisonous fumes of the gelatine. One of the winzes was one hundred and twenty feet deep, the other seventy-five feet.
Source: London Gazette (20 May 1910)
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