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Awards for Gallantry
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Joseph Harrison |
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Edward Medal | |||
| Date: | 22 Sep 1920 | ||
| Colliery: | Holewood Colliery, Chesterfield | ||
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Whitehall, 22nd March 1922.
His Majesty The King has been graciously pleased to award the Edward Medal to Samuel Peters, Joseph Harrison, Harold West, and Thomas Calladine, in the following circumstances :—
On September 22nd, 1920, a heavy fall of earth occurred in a seam of the Holmewood Colliery, near Chesterfield, imprisoning two men who were working in the seam. It was ascertained that the men were uninjured, but, as it was obvious that the work of reaching them would occupy some days the first necessity was to supply them with food. Peters, the under-manager, with great ingenuity, passed food through a cycle tyre enclosed in iron piping. Further falls occurred during the forty-eight hours following the original fall, but it then became possible to pass some timber through, although gas appeared in the cavity and began to give trouble. A small hole was made through to the imprisoned men, and they were eventually freed after being four days in the seam.
Peters, West, Harrison, and Calladine all distinguished themselves greatly in the work of rescue, and were engaged for practically the
Source: London Gazette (28 Mar 1922)
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