Full Details
- Surname
- SHELARD
- Forename
- Walter Alexander
- Day
- 01
- Month
- 03
- Year
- 1927
- Age
- 21
- Occupation
- Collier
- Mine/Quarry Name
- Marine
- Mineral Worked
- Coal
- Owner
- Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron & Coal Co. Ltd
- Location
- Cwm
- County
- Monmouthshire
- Details of Event
- Explosion of firedamp propagated by coal dust caused either by safety lamp or of stone falling on stones. 52 killed. He had a broken leg and burns to the upper body.
