FOR BRAVERY. MEDALS AWARDED TO MINERS.
POLICE AND FIREMEN'S TROPHItS. NUMBER TO BE LIMITED. By Telegraph. — Press Association. — Copyright. (Received July 12, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 11th July. The King has granted the Edward Medal to five Europeans and six native miners, who were entombed for forty hours as the result of a mad rush in a Kimberley diamond mine. The total number of King Edward's silver medals for police and firemen to be awarded annually will not exceed forty in tho United Kingdom, thirty in the overseas dominions, and fifty in India.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 10, 12 July 1909, Page 7
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