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Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (W. J. Harris 20th. May 1924) with...
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Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (W. J. Harris 20th. May 1924) with integral bronze riband buckle, contact marks, generally very fine
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R.H.S. Case No. 47,506: ‘For rescuing men from the gas and smoke filled Abbontiakoon Mine in West Africa. Owing to a fire, dense, smokey and poisonous gasses filled the mine and the mine manager with seven white men and four natives were rendered insensible either by smoke or by the after damp following the fire. [Harris and 13 others] went down the mine in two parties and succeeded in saving all the men with the exception of one native who lost his life.’
W. J. Harris volunteered to enter the gold mine as part of the rescue party under the command of Captain Arthur Retallack, a former mine Captain of Blackwater, Truro. A contemporary newspaper article notes that a number of the rescuers were also overcome by smoke, their bravery being later praised by the Prince of Wales at the presentation ceremony held at Farquah.
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R.H.S. Case No. 47,506: ‘For rescuing men from the gas and smoke filled Abbontiakoon Mine in West Africa. Owing to a fire, dense, smokey and poisonous gasses filled the mine and the mine manager with seven white men and four natives were rendered insensible either by smoke or by the after damp following the fire. [Harris and 13 others] went down the mine in two parties and succeeded in saving all the men with the exception of one native who lost his life.’
W. J. Harris volunteered to enter the gold mine as part of the rescue party under the command of Captain Arthur Retallack, a former mine Captain of Blackwater, Truro. A contemporary newspaper article notes that a number of the rescuers were also overcome by smoke, their bravery being later praised by the Prince of Wales at the presentation ceremony held at Farquah.
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Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (W. J. Harris 20th. May 1924) with integral bronze riband buckle, contact marks, generally very fine
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R.H.S. Case No. 47,506: ‘For rescuing men from the gas and smoke filled Abbontiakoon Mine in West Africa. Owing to a fire, dense, smokey and poisonous gasses filled the mine and the mine manager with seven white men and four natives were rendered insensible either by smoke or by the after damp following the fire. [Harris and 13 others] went down the mine in two parties and succeeded in saving all the men with the exception of one native who lost his life.’
W. J. Harris volunteered to enter the gold mine as part of the rescue party under the command of Captain Arthur Retallack, a former mine Captain of Blackwater, Truro. A contemporary newspaper article notes that a number of the rescuers were also overcome by smoke, their bravery being later praised by the Prince of Wales at the presentation ceremony held at Farquah.
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R.H.S. Case No. 47,506: ‘For rescuing men from the gas and smoke filled Abbontiakoon Mine in West Africa. Owing to a fire, dense, smokey and poisonous gasses filled the mine and the mine manager with seven white men and four natives were rendered insensible either by smoke or by the after damp following the fire. [Harris and 13 others] went down the mine in two parties and succeeded in saving all the men with the exception of one native who lost his life.’
W. J. Harris volunteered to enter the gold mine as part of the rescue party under the command of Captain Arthur Retallack, a former mine Captain of Blackwater, Truro. A contemporary newspaper article notes that a number of the rescuers were also overcome by smoke, their bravery being later praised by the Prince of Wales at the presentation ceremony held at Farquah.
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