Show welsh heroism in quarry wins the workers V C v LONDON the heroism of two welsh quarrymen has been revealed by the award of the edward medal the workers V C by king george to william williams and ben littler jones at the quarry in barnar von shire these two men stood by a trapped comrade even though they knew that six charges next to them were timed to explode in 80 seconds announcing the award the london gazette gave the following description I 1 blasting was about to take place 1 and six fuse fuses had been lighted when a man mart named roberts arod rod on a stone which tipped and trapped his A foot loot williams and jones tried to I 1 release roberts and failed wil hams liams shouted to the others to pull I 1 bout out the bases and pulled out four t himself I 1 jones pulled out the fifth fuse and roberts the sixth had any of the I 1 detonation exploded all three men would have been blown to bits |