The Tynewydd Colliery disaster occurred on 11 April 1877, when water from a nearby closed

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flooded the Newydd Colliery in

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and 14 miners became trapped, of which five died. For his efforts in the rescue, Henry Naunton Davies received the first BMA Gold Medal.

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