Medals of Valour for Heroes of Pit Disasters

Postcard celebrating (with a poem) the medals of Valour awarded by King Edward VII to the Heroes of the Pit Disasters at Whitehaven, Cumbria (in 1910 at the Wellington pit where 136 miners lost their lives) and Westhoughton, Lancashire (also in 1910 at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit, known as the Pretoria Pit, in Over Hulton)

Actions Colliery Disasters Heroic Hulton Loss Miner Pits Poem Pretoria Rescuer Rescuers Seventh Survivors Valour Wellington Whitehaven

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