Full Details
- Surname
- BUTTON
- Forename
- Robert Wilfred
- Day
- 01
- Month
- 03
- Year
- 1927
- Age
- 19
- Occupation
- Haulier
- 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. Badly burnt and looked as if he had been scalded.
