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Awards for Gallantry
Thomas Kelsall Sephton |
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Carnegie Hero Fund | |||
| Date: | 1928 | ||
| Colliery: | Newton Pit, Haydock | ||
| Occupation: | Fireman | ||
The Carnegie Hero Fund Trustees have made a number of awards, including a memorial certificate and allowance to the widow of Thomas Kelsall Sephton, colliery fireman, Juddfield Street, Haydock, Lancashire, who lost his life attempting to rescue a man overcome by gas in Newton Pit, Haydock. Honorary certificates and grants to James Vincent McGuire, colliery drawer, Haydock, and William Lyndon, colliery contractor, Haydock, who took part in the rescue work.
The Carnegie Hero Fund Trustees have awarded honorary certificates to Lewis Noble and John Vernon, stallmen; James Edwards, colliery manager; and Walter Bourne, under-manager, who assisted in the rescue of a man buried by a fall roof at Ellistown Colliery, near Leicester.
Source: The Science and Art of Mining (20 Oct 1928)
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