White Rajah's flag comes home

From: New Straits Times | Date: October 28, 2006| Author: Dennis Wong | Copyright information


New Straits Times

10-28-2006

White Rajah's flag comes home
Byline: Dennis Wong
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Main Section

KUCHING: The flag that was draped over the casket of the last White Rajah, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, has returned home.

The Sarawak flag was taken to England by then Deputy Defence Minister Horace Edgar Hamilton Elam, before the Japanese invasion in 1941.
After his death in 1982, his children, Susan, 64, and Br...