Seven Sisters Patrol

Locality

Seven Sisters is a village in the Dulais Valley, Wales. It lies 10 miles north-east of Neath. Seven Sisters falls in the Port Talbot county borough, originally West Glamorganshire.

Patrol members
Name Occupation Posted from Until
Sergeant Frederick Woozley

Colliery train driver

Unknown 03 Dec 1944
Corporal David Thomas Morgan

Coal hewer

Unknown 03 Dec 1944
Private William J. Bowen

Coal hewer

Unknown Unknown
Private Willie Davies 03 Aug 1940 03 Dec 1944
Private Haydn Jenkins

Colliery hewer

Unknown Unknown
Private Victor Evans Lloyd

Haulier below ground

05 Oct 1940 03 Dec 1944
Private Ivor M. Price

Colliery hewer helper

15 Jan 1941 03 Dec 1944
Private Clifford Rees Price

Coal hewer

Unknown 03 Dec 1944
Private Walter Williams

Colliery haulier

Unknown 03 Dec 1944
Patrol & OB pictures
OB Image
Caption & credit
Seven Sisters Colliery 1942 from The Silent Village
OB Status
Location not known
Location

Seven Sisters Patrol

Other information

The Patrol members worked at the Seven Sisters Colliery. They would have had a particularly clear knowledge of what impact their sabotage duties might have had when the colliery featured in ā€œThe Silent Villageā€, a 1943 film by Humphrey Jennings. The nearby village of Cwmgiedd is imagined to suffer the same fate as the Czech mining village of Lidice, all of whose male population over 15 were executed in revenge for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich the SS Reich protector by Czech SOE agents. The film shows the miners striking and then sabotaging their own mine with explosives before the reprisals that follow. 

References

TNA ref WO199/3389.

Hancock data held at B.R.A

1939 Register