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George Groves |
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Edward Medal, Second Class | |||
| Date: | 02 Nov 1911 | ||
| Colliery: | East Greenwich | ||
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Whitehall, December 28, 1911.
His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to award the Edward Medal of the Second Class to the widow of George Groves, under the following circumstances:—
On the 2nd of November, 1911, a workman named Berry was employed at the Standard Ammonia Company's Works, at East Greenwich, in cleaning an Ammonia Tower, which is a cylindrical iron vessel about thirty feet high and five feet in diameter, when he was overcome by an inrush of poisonous gas, due to an unsuspected defect in the plant. He fell unconscious to the bottom of the tower, and Groves immediately went to his rescue. He was lowered into the tower, and succeeded in reaching Berry, but, before the men could be raised to the top of the tower, Groves was himself overcome, and both fell back into the poisonous atmosphere and lost their lives.
Source: London Gazette (02 Jan 1912)
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