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1. We shall remember him

   Posted Aug 18th 2006, 12:00am by Virginia Maher

   ... 'Give me the peace the world knows nothing of.' If ever there was a fitting epitaph for Jack Edwards, this was it. The tribute was offered by fellow Welshman and life president of the Hong Kong Male Voice Choir, Berwyn Evans. Few deserve peace like Jack Edwards, MBE, OBE. He died last Sunday after a long battle against deteriorating health. He was 88. Edwards dedicated more ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/560704/we-shall-remember-him
2. Fitting farewell for war veteran

   Posted Sep 30th 2006, 12:00am by Virginia Maher

   ... The Reverend John Chynchen reads a prayer before the ashes of war veteran Jack Edwards are interred on a hill overlooking the second world war section of Sai Wan War Cemetery in Chai Wan. The graves of many men who fought and died in Hong Kong can be seen from the final resting place of the late champion of former prisoners of war. Edwards was legendary for his efforts on their behalf ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/565852/fitting-farewell-war-veteran
3. HK's quiet champion

   Posted Dec 03rd 2006, 12:00am by Virginia Maher

   ... Hong Kong was stunned on the morning of December 5, 1986, to learn that the governor, Sir Edward Youde, had died in his sleep in Beijing during the night. Unlike many of his predecessors, Sir Edward was a low-key governor, preferring to get the job done away from the public eye. Yet the genuine outpouring of grief when he died left no doubt about the respect and real affection ...

   http://www.scmp.com/node/573906
4. slice of life

   Posted Dec 07th 2004, 12:00am by Virginia Maher

   ... From the South China Morning Post this week in 1986 Sir Edward Youde, the 26th governor of Hong Kong, died in his sleep in Beijing while on a trade mission to the Chinese capital. Sir Edward was the only governor to die in office. He was 62. The cause of death was not immediately revealed, but Sir Edward had suffered heart trouble and underwent open-heart surgery before he ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/481078/slice-life
5. Historic flag to drape veteran's coffin

   Posted Aug 18th 2006, 12:00am by Virginia Maher

   ... Hong Kong's historic Union flag will drape the coffin of veteran campaigner Jack Edwards. It was the first Union flag raised after the liberation of Hong Kong in August 1945 and the last lowered at Government House on the night of the handover in 1997. That was the result of a secret arrangement between Edwards and Chris Patten, Hong Kong's last governor. The flag ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/560703/historic-flag-drape-veterans-coffin
6. Veteran campaigner for POWs kept fighting until the end

   Posted Aug 15th 2006, 12:00am by Virginia Maher

   ... was determined to go this year. Jack Edwards was born in South Wales in Cardiff's suburb of Canton at the tail-end of the first world war and joined the Territorial Army shortly before the outbreak ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/560287/veteran-campaigner-pows-kept-fighting-until-end
7. Slice of life

   Posted Sep 26th 2006, 12:00am by Virginia Maher

   ... for the future. Sir Edward told a hushed Legislative Council the agreement meant that people could 'continue to plan their lives, work and raise their families in Hong Kong in peace and security ...

   http://www.scmp.com/node/565380
8. slice of life

   Posted Dec 21st 2004, 12:00am by Virginia Maher

   ... minister mid-sentence to say that his position had not been decided. But Thatcher would not take no for an answer and declared there was no question that Sir Edward would be part of the five-man ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/482886/slice-life
9. slice of life

   Posted Mar 20th 2007, 12:00am by Virginia Maher

   ... From the pages of the South China Morning Post this week in 1967 The US Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was accused of committing one of the greatest post-war blunders in the handling of the defection of Stalin's daughter from the Soviet Union. Edward Derwinski, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, demanded in a letter that Rusk disclose fully why the State Department had ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/585725/slice-life
10. Slice of life

    Posted May 30th 2006, 12:00am by Virginia Maher

    ... of Canterbury Geoffrey Fisher place on her head St Edward's Crown - symbol of the British monarchy. After watching her progress to the ancient abbey and waiting to see her emerge as queen, ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/550774/slice-life

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