SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1986
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SIR EDWARD'S BODY FLOWN BACK
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THE BODY OF THE LATE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, WAS CARRIED BACK TO HONG KONG IN A SPECIAL ROYAL AIR FORCE PLANE THIS (SATURDAY) EVENING.
WITH LADY YOUDE AND HER TWO DAUGHTERS, AND THE SENIOR MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MISS LYDIA DUNN, THE PLANE TOUCHED DOWN IN A SLIGHT DRIZZLE AT 7.18 PM AND TAXÍED ITS WAY SLOWLY TO THE NORTH-EAST CORNER OF THE AIRPORT.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES, CLIMBED THE FLIGHT OF STEPS WITH THE GOVERNOR'S AIDE-DE-CAMP MR PAUL COLLIER, TO ESCORT LADY YOUDE AND THE FAMILY DOWN, THEY WERE MET AT THE FOOT OF THE STEPS BY MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS, AS WELL AS MR LI CHUWEN, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF XINHUA NEWS AGENCY.
MEANWHILE, THE COFFIN WAS BORNE OFF THE PLANE BY EIGHT MEMBERS OF THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS WHO CARRIED IT A SHORT JOURNEY TO THE HEARSE. LINING BOTH SIDES WAS A CONTINGENT COMPRISING MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL HONG KONG REGIMENT AND THE ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE.
WITH MORE THAN 100 MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA RECORDING THE SAD OCCASION, WHICH WAS TELEVISED LIVE, THE CORTEGE OF MORE THAN 20 CARS WAS ESCORTED BY POLICE OUTRIDERS TO GOVERNMENT HOUSE, WHERE THE BODY OF SIR EDWARD WILL LIE IN STATE.
MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WILL BE ABLE TO PAY THEIR LAST RESPECTS ON MONDAY.
THE FUNERAL SERVICE FOR SIR EDWARD WILL TAKE PLACE AT ST JOHN'S CATHEDRAL ON TUESDAY.
FUNERAL SERVICE FOR SIR EDWARD ON TUESDAY *****
ANNOUNCED TODAY THE ACTING GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES (SATURDAY) THAT THE FUNERAL SERVICE FOR THE LATE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, WILL TAKE PLACE AT ST JOHN'S CATHEDRAL AT 11.30 AM ON TUESDAY (DECEMBER 9).
SPEAKING TO REPORTERS OUTSIDE THE GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT. SIR DAVID SAID THAT THE BODY OF SIR EDWARD WOULD BE FLOWN BACK THIS EVENING FROM PEK ING ACCOMPANIED BY LADY YOUDE AND HER TWO DAUGHTERS.
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