Tynewydd Colliery disaster

Tynewydd Colliery disaster

Date	11 April 1877
Time	4pm
Location	Porth, Wales
Cause	Flooding from nearby colliery
Deaths	5

The Tynewydd Colliery disaster occurred on 11 April 1877, when water from a nearby closed colliery flooded the Newydd Colliery in Porth and 14 miners became trapped, of which five died. For his efforts in the rescue, Henry Naunton Davies received the first BMA Gold Medal ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]} and for the first time the Albert Medal for Lifesaving was awarded for gallantry on land. ^{[6] [7]}

References

1. "The Tynewydd Colliery disaster". British Heritage. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
2. Roberts, Shirley (August 2003). "Henry Naunton Davies (1827–1899): A Devoted Family Doctor and a Brave Rescuer" . Journal of Medical Biography. 11 (3): 163–166. doi:10.1177/096777200301100311. ISSN   0967-7720. PMID   12870041. S2CID   41637382.
3. Griffiths, Richard (2010). The Entrepreneurial Society of the Rhondda Valleys, 1840-1920: Power and Influence in the Porth-Pontypridd Region. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 81. ISBN   978-0-7083-2290-1.
4. Jones, P. A. (24 December 1977). "The first BMA Gold Medal". British Medical Journal. 2 (6103): 1658–60. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.6103.1658. PMC   1633320 . PMID   338122.
5. Llewellyn, Ken (1992). Disaster at Tynewydd (2nd ed.). Cardiff: Church in Wales Publications. OCLC   27768632.
6. The Leeds Mercury, 25 April 1877.
7. Price, John (2014). Everyday Heroism: Victorian Constructions of the Heroic Civilian. London: Bloomsbury. pp. 17–18. ISBN   978-1-4411066-5-0.

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