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Awards for Gallantry
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William Roberts |
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Edward Medal | |||
| Date: | 15 Jan 1924 | ||
| Colliery: | Dorothea Slate Quarry, Carnarvonshire | ||
| Occupation: | Quarryman | ||
Whitehall, September 10, 1924.
His Majesty The King has been graciously pleased to award the Edward Medal to Mr. William Roberts, Quarryman, in the following circumstances:—
On ttie 15th January, 1924, four men were engaged in clearing away the debris from a landslide which had blocked a road abutting on the Dorothea Slate Quarry in Carnarvonshire. Without any warning a portion of the road slipped into the quarry carrying with it one of the men who fell to the bottom and was killed. A second man named Robert Jones narrowly escaped the same fate but managed to clutch the edge of the road in his fall. Roberts, one of his fellow workers, at once went to his assistance; he seized Jones by the wrists and managed to drag him to safety.
Roberts undoubtedly performed a very courageous act; there was little firm ground left and such as it was it might well have given way at any moment. But for his action Robert Jones would certainly have lost his life as he could hold on no longer when Roberts reached him and there is a clear drop of 240 ft. to the bottom of the quarry.
Source: London Gazette (12 Sep 1924)
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