Creswell LIST OF VICTIMS

Creswell Memorial

The photograph of the Creswell memorial was taken by Ian Gilbert who was an undermanager at Creswell Colliery for several years in the 1980's. Ian is now retired.
The memorial was renovated for the year 2000.

The garden was laid out and the memorial erected by the Elmton with Creswell Parish Council and the National Union of Minewokers, Nottinghamshire Area, in memory of the men who lost their lives in the disaster.

LIST OF VICTIMS

BODIES RECOVERED ON 26th SEPTEMBER, 1950

Names	Age	Occupation
1. Leonard Bower	38	Shot Firer
2. Harry Godfrey	51	Overman
3. Horace Attenborough	45	Packer
4. William Henry Bird	39	Ripper
5. John Henry Bowden	29	Meco Moore Operator
6. Ernest Briggs	33	Packer
7. John Williarn Brocklehurst	44	Packer
8. Robert Brough	36	Cutterman
9. Alfred Edgar Bryan	56	Packer
10. Herbert Stanley Buckle	48	Gummer
11. Sam Cocking	42	Cutterman
12. Ernest Deakin	60	Gummer
13. Ernest Dodd	37	Ripper
14. John Dodd	45	Packer
15. Fred Doncaster	27	Conveyor Erector
16. John William Doxey	45	Packer
17. George Ellis	51	Packer
18. Charles Foulkes	49	Cutterman
19. George William Gillert	38	Ripper
20. Kenneth Amos Goucher	42	Conveyor Erector
21. Peter W. Green	53	Packer
22. C. Hemingray	25	Conveyor Erector
23. Cecil Hendley	34	Cutterman
24. Reginald C. Holmes	44	Cutterman
25. Arnold Hutton	48	Packer
26. J. T. Jackson	58	Gummer
27. Robert James	52	Packer
28. Ernest Johnson	36	Packer
29. E. Johnson	46	Packer
30. Reginald Kirk	39	Ripper
31. William Mellish	55	Steel supervisor
32. Edward Millward	44	Packer
33. Ernest Leslie Needham	44	Stone Contractor
34. William Henry Orvice	49	Conveyor Erector
35. Kenneth F. Robinson	25	Packer
36. G. Sydney Rogers	44	Ripper
37. Victor Rose	52	Cutterman
38. Leslie Rutherford	25	Cutterman
39. Thomas J. Senior	42	Packer
40. J. Shaw	56	Ripper
41. Herbert Shipley	38	Cutterman
42. Thomas Smith		Packer
43. Thomas Traylor	43	Cutterman
44. Robert WilliamThomas Walker	38	Packer
45. C. Ward	30	Packer
46. Frederick Whitlam	52	Packer
47. George Yearham	57	Face Timberman

BODIES RECOVERED ON 25th March, 1951

48. Leslie Marshall	42	Deputy
49. Reginald Teasdale	46	Supports Economy Officer
50. William Adams	51	Packer
51. Frederick Barker	41	Ripper
51 Lee John Buxton	59	Steel Supervisor
53. Allen Davis	63	Stone Contractor
54. Leslie Dodd	47	Ripper
55. Thomas Henry Evans	50	Packer
56. Gordon Fox	62	Ripper
57. Leslie Hancock	28	Packer
58. James Arthur Harrison	60	Cutterman
59. Thomas Hart	39	Datal
60. John William Humphreys	50	Ripper
61. Albert Lewis	46	Packer
62. Edward Limb	55	Datal
63. John Henry London	48	Ripper
64. William James London	51	Packer
65. Albert Cecil Mallender	47	Ripper
66. William Mellish	36	Datal
67. Eric Parkin	36	Cutterman
68. Robert Idris Price	34	Packer
69. Arnold Loftin Robinson	29	Packer
70. James Lewis Sadler	41	Ripper
71. Thomas Arthur Severn	46	Datal
72. Williarn Ernest Stonach	36	Ripper
73. Joseph Taylor	42	Face Timberman
74. George Wass	37	Packer

3. BODIES RECOVERED ON THE 11TH AUGUST, 1951

75. Thomas William Hunt	51	Deputy
76. Harry Clarke	46	Ripper
77. George Charles Cope	59	Datal
78. McDara Connolly	28	Ripper
79. John Edward Oliver	53	Ripper
80. Carey Gersham Thorpe	46	Gummer

In each case the cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning.