Joseph Attard Tabone, Xagħra
Sette Giugno victims
In the second part of his feature on Sette Giugno (The Sunday Times, June 14) Eddie Attard illustrated his feature with portraits of the four victims.
Unfortunately the names of Giuseppe Bajada and Wenzu Dyer were transposed. Bajada is the first on the left while Dyer is third.
This mistake could have emanated from the portraits of the victims illustrated in the book Party Politics in a Fortress Colony by Henry Frendo, published in 1979. Bajada's portrait is a copy of his passport photo which was in his jacket pocket at the time of his death.
When in 1964 the government wanted to commemorate this tragic event as part of the Independence celebrations by placing the victims' portraits where they fell along Old Bakery Street, I was asked by the late Francis Mallia, then Curator of Archaeology at the Museums Department, to obtain a copy of Bajada's portrait.
When I contacted Bajada's family, they were very obliging. An enlarged copy was then exhibited at Old Bakery Street, Valletta.
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George C. Buttigieg(pensioner)
Jun 28th 2009, 16:50
Yes sir Mr.Bartolo i think thats a good idea and a nice gesture, i would like to see these men on one of our designs and fantastic artisitic postage stamps of Malta. well said sir. I have voted for Malta for the best european postage stamp.
JF.Bartolo
Jun 28th 2009, 11:27
In my humble opinion i think that these Guys who i call my Maltese brothers who were shot during a riot by the >Mighty BRITISH army>, should be commemorated on a postage stamp now that Malta Post is running a competition. its one way of remembering true patriots