Fifty years after being witness to the auspicious moment when the Union Jack was lowered and replaced with the Golden Arrowhead, British soldier Edward John Constant returned to Guyana to join in the celebration of the country’s independence anniversary.
Constant had been 19 years old when he travelled to Guyana in 1966, and had served from March to October that year in the Middlesex Regiment.
In a letter to British High Commissioner Greg Quinn, Constant wrote that he had