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Awards for Gallantry
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Thomas Thomas |
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Edward Medal | |||
| Date: | 21 Sep 1933 | ||
| Colliery: | Brynamman Colliery, Glamorgan | ||
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Whitehall, January 22, 1934.
His Majesty The King has been graciously pleased to award the Edward Medal to Thomas Thomas in recognition of his gallantry in the following circumstances:—
On the 21st September, 1933, there was an inrush of water in the Brass Vein Slant of the Brynamman Colliery, Glamorgan. Thomas, a time, assisted, at the risk of his own life, a youth who had lost his lamp and who was unable, in the darkness and rush of water, to make his way to safety, to reach a part of the working where several of the colliers had gathered. The colliers then divided into two groups, one group seeking a way out by an airway and another group by a roadway which was flooded and obstructed by a mass of timber and rails which had been washed down by the water. Thomas took up the rear in the group that took the roadway, and when they succeeded in reaching safety he returned, at considerable peril to himself, to fetch the other group, who then escaped by the same route, Thomas being the last to leave.
Source: London Gazette (06 Feb 1934)
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