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Awards for Gallantry
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Frederick Raymond Cordey |
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Edward Medal | |||
| Date: | 25 Jan 1932 | ||
| Colliery: | Llwynypia Colliery, Tonypandy | ||
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Whitehall, November 3, 1932.
His Majesty The King has been graciously pleased to award the Edward Medal to Frederick Raymond Cordey, John Thomas Bowen and Arianfryn Hughes in recognition of their gallantry in the following circumstances:—
On the 25th January, 1932, an explosion of firedamp took place in the Llwynypia Colliery, near Tonypandy, and caused poisonous gas to circulate round the ventilating system. Cordey at the time was working with a man named West at some distance from the point where the explosion occurred, but both were affected by the gas. West collapsed, and Cordey took him on his back for thirty yards before he too began to collapse. Leaving West, he made his way to the Main Heading where he found Bowen and Hughes attending to others who had been injured; he was too exhausted to do more than tell them of West's plight. Bowen and Hughes thereupon went to rescue West. Bowen's lamp went out indicating the presence of gas, but they pressed on and effected the rescue. Cordey, who had followed them as soon as he could, met them shortly after they started back. All three men deliberately endangered their lives in rescuing their comrade. The risk was unknown, and two rescuers actually lost their lives through venturing rashly into untested air in other parts of the mine.
Source: London Gazette (22 Nov 1932)
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