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David Davies |
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Albert Medal, Second Class | |||
| Date: | 11 Apr 1877 | ||
| Colliery: | Tynewydd Colliery, Porth | ||
| Occupation: | Colliery Owner | ||
Whitehall, August 6, 1877.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to confer the "Albert Medal of the Second Class" on —
David Davies, Colliery Owner, Penrhiwfer, Rhondda Valley, South Wales.
Thomas Jones, Colliery Owner, Ynishir, Rhondda Valley, South Wales.
Edmund Thomas, Colliery Owner, Llwyncelyn, Rhondda Valley, South Wales.
James Thomas, Colliery Owner and Manager, Tynewydd, Rhondda Valley, South Wales.
Thomas Thomas, Colliery Manager, Ynishir, Rhondda Valley, South Wales.
Thomas Getrtch Davies, Colliery Manager, Tylacoch, Rhondda Valley, South Wales.
David Evans, Colliery Manager, Ferndale, Rhondda Valley, South Wales.
David Jones, Colliery Manager, Cymmer Level, Rhondda Valley, South Wales.
Henry Lewis, Colliery Manager, Energlyn Colliery, Monmouthshire.
Isaiah Thomas, Colliery Manager, Brithwynydd Colliery, Rhondda Valley, South Wales.
William Thomas, Colliery Manager, Resolven, near Neath, Glamorganshire.
The following is an account of the services in respect of which the decoration has been conferred :—
On the 11th of April the Tynewydd Colliery, situate near Forth, in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales, was inundated with water from the old workings of the adjoining Cymmer Colliery. At the time of the inundation there were fourteen men in the pit, of whom four were unfortunately drowned, and one killed by compressed air, leaving nine men imprisoned by the water ; of this number four were released after eighteen hours imprisonment, and five after nine days imprisonment. It was in effecting the release of these latter five that those distinguished services were rendered which the conferring of the "Albert Medal of the Second Class" is intended to recognise.
From Thursday, April the 12th, when the operations for the rescue were commenced, until Friday, April the 20th, when the intervening barrier of coal had been cut through and the imprisoned men released, the above-named eleven men were present at different times, and, while being of valuable service in the rescue, exposed their own lives to the great danger which would have attended an outburst of water and compressed air, or an explosion of the inflammable gas which at different times during the rescue escaped under great pressure and in dangerous quantities.
Source: London Gazette (07 Aug 1877)
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