A photograph showing senior officers who were commanding the police and military forces in south Wales during the coal strike of 1910 and 1911.
Front centre, is Major-General Cecil Frederick Nevil Macready. He was promoted Major-General in October 1910, and in November took direct command of troops deployed to deal with a possible miners' strike in the Rhondda Valley, insisting that his troops remained subordinate both to the police and to the Home Office and not answerable to the panicking local magistrates.

To his left, is Lionel Lindsay, Chief Constable of the Glamorgan Constabulary.

*THE ROSS MATHER POLICE MEMORABILIA OF WALES COLLECTION.