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 Bruce, 61, kept their father’s prized possession until they decided to return it.
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 Bruce, 61, kept their father’s prized possession until they decided to return it.
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