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Fifty-five years may have passed since the Aberfan disaster but Jeff Edwards still cannot get the image of his dead classmate resting on his left shoulder out of his mind. The then.


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Jeff Edwards, who was just eight years old, lost most of his classmates when a coal slip buried his school in the tiny welsh village on October 21 1966. Speaking on the 50th anniversary of the.


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Tom Parry Special correspondent 18:45, 15 Oct 2016 Updated 09:54, 21 Oct 2016 | | Bookmark Fifty years on, Jeff Edwards still sees the dead girl, her head cradled on his shoulder. Two children,.


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"To come to Aberfan wouldn't have been appropriate," said Jeff Edwards, the last child to be rescued from the school, who the Queen always referred to as "the little boy with the blond hair"..


The Aberfan disaster devastated an entire community, but for Jeff Edwards it began a lifelong

Fifty-five years may have passed since the Aberfan disaster but Jeff Edwards still cannot get the image of his dead classmate resting on his left shoulder out of his mind. The then.


The Aberfan disaster devastated an entire community, but for Jeff Edwards it began a lifelong

Jeff Edwards was eight years old when the disaster took place, and was the last child to be rescued alive from the school. He has since met Queen Elizabeth II several times during her.


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Jeff Edwards, a survivor of the disaster who was just eight years old at the time, recalled the traumatic experience in an interview with the BBC.. Tributes for the community of Aberfan. BBC presenter Huw Edwards said: "116 children. 28 adults. Remember, Aberfan 21-10-1966. Remember the criminal negligence that caused it.


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Jeff Edwards was the last child to be recovered alive. His best friend Robert Jones died. Only a handful of schoolchildren between the ages of seven and 10 survived the Aberfan disaster.


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Survivor Jeff Edwards was eight years old when he was rescued from the rubble. 'Lovely lady' Mr Edwards said Ms Williams was a "lovely lady, very caring and thoughtful". "She saved a lot of.


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A young boy named Jeff Edwards was in that classroom when disaster struck. For about an hour and a half, the 8-year-old desperately gasped for air, trapped in the coal waste that completely surrounded him and his classmates. "My desk was pinned against my stomach and a girl's head was on my left shoulder," Edwards later remembered. "She was dead."


The Aberfan disaster devastated an entire community, but for Jeff Edwards it began a lifelong

Reliving the events of October 21 1966, the now 64-year-old has shared how his pain led him to help the next generation of youngsters in Aberfan who were hit by unemployment when the mining.


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Jeff Edwards a survivor of the Aberfan disaster and former Merthyr mayor, who launched projects to help the young people of his village The summer carnival launched by staff is now an annual.


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"All our friends were gone," Jeff Edwards,. The Aberfan Disaster Memorial Fund, which was set up on the day of the disaster, raised the equivalent of $16.6 million in modern dollars. The.


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A fireman used a hatchet to free the young boy from beneath his desk, then passed him along to safety via a human chain. Edwards, the tenth child rescued that morning, would be the last survivor.


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At the time of the disaster Jeff Edwards was an eight-year-old schoolboy, with striking white blonde hair. He remembers being in a maths lesson, facing the blackboard and turned away from the.