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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
"Awarded for Service in the Cause of Humanity" ... to William Beith, Mechanical Engineer at Harris's Navigation Colliery, Quaker's Yard, for his part in the final phase of a rescue operation at the Tynewydd Colliery, Rhondda, 11 April 1877. The pit had been flooded by water trapping 14 men.
