A British soldier killed by a bomb planted by Maoist activists in Hong Kong has been honoured more than four decades after his death.
Sergeant Colin Workman, a 26-year-old bomb disposal expert with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, had been in the colony for less than a fortnight when a bomb he was trying to disarm on August 28, 1967, exploded at the summit of Lion Rock, throwing him more than 60 metres down a cliff.
He left a wife, Maureen, and two-year-old son, Steven. Maureen was pregnant with their second child, a daughter, when Workman was killed.
The couple, both from Northern Ireland, had met through the army and married in the early 60s before relocating to Singapore for work.
Maureen, who remarried and moved to New Zealand in 1974, was presented with the Elizabeth Cross last Thursday by the British high commissioner, Vicki Treadwell, at the British consulate in Auckland.
The medal, named after Queen Elizabeth, has since 1948 been given to relatives of British armed forces personnel killed in action or through terrorist attacks.
At the ceremony, Maureen, now in her 70s, recalled her disbelief at hearing her husband had been killed. She had just returned from a holiday in Northern Ireland with Steven when her father broke the bad news and immediately flew to Hong Kong.