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John McCabe |
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Edward Medal | |||
| Date: | 09 Jul 1918 | ||
| Colliery: | Stanrigg Colliery, Airdrie | ||
| Occupation: | Drawer | ||
Whitehall, 11th June, 1919.
His Majesty the King has been pleased to award the Edward Medal to ...
Also to John McCabe, a drawer at the Stanrigg Colliery, Airdrie, aged 17.
On the 9th July, 1918, there was an inrush of moss into the workings. McCabe, with two other drawers and three miners, was at the bottom of number 3 shaft when they were told that the moss had broken in. The two other boys and the three men at once ascended the shaft and escaped. McCabe, however, knowing that there were men at the face who might be cut off, returned for a quarter of a mile and warned the men. He and the men he had warned were ultimately collected and raised by another shaft. When he returned to the face, McCabe did not know where the break had occurred, or whether the moss might not at any moment fill the workings through which he returned, as in fact it soon afterwards did. He faced a grave and unknown danger, which might have been fatal, in order to enable others to escape.
Source: London Gazette (13 Jun 1919)
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| Researcher | Date | Interest | |
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| Marion Nash | 21 Oct 2015 |
John McCabe is related on my grandmothers side of the family. |
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