The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection

An Edward Medal for Mines in Bronze awarded to Under-Manager James Kipling, for rescuing a miner at Mohpani Colliery, India, 7 January 1925
Edward Medal (Mines), G.V.R., 1st issue, bronze (James Kipling) mounted as worn, good very fine £1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection.

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E.M. London Gazette 19 March 1926.

‘On 7 January 1925, a very heavy fall of roof took place in the Mohpani Colliery of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Co. in India, killing one miner instantaneously and completely burying another named Nanoo Maora. On a report of the accident reaching Mr Kipling, the under-manager of the mine, he went with Mr Johnson, the senior European overseer, and Nani Khan, a native timber-drawer, and crawling through the fall of stone and earth, eventually got the man out. Within 20 minutes of their extricating Nanoo 20 tons of rock fell on the very spot where he had been lying.’

James Kipling, James Johnston and Nani Khan were each awarded the Edward Medal in Bronze for their bravery.