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Awards for Gallantry
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Samuel Needham |
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Edward Medal, Second Class | |||
| Date: | 30 Aug 1910 | ||
| Colliery: | Man Farm, Castleton, Derbyshire | ||
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Whitehall, February 13, 1911.
His Majesty has been graciously pleased to award the Edward Medal of the Second Class to Hugh Thomas Hughes under the following circumstances:—
On the evening of the 30th August, 1910, Mr. Samuel Needham, of Man Farm, Castleton, Derbyshire, was driving his cattle from a field on his farm to his farm buildings, when a bull attacked him, and, knocking him down, began to gore him. Mr. H. T. Hughes, a District Surveyor, who lives at Chapel-en-lefrith, and happened to be passing at the time, at once went to Mr. Needham's help, and managed to drive off the bull by beating it about the face and eyes with his cap. If it had not been for Mr. Hughes' timely and courageous action, in all probability Mr. Needham would have been killed or seriously injured.
Source: London Gazette (14 Feb 1911)
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