The world was today paying tribute to the victims of the Munich air disaster. And in the Black Country the thoughts of a generation were with Duncan Edwards.
The crash killed 23, including eight Manchester United Busby Babes. Former Express & Star journalist George Follows was also among the dead.
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In the Black Country, the Friends of Priory Park, people on the estate where Edwards grew up, were today holding a commemoration at his statue in Dudley town centre.
A minute’s silence was being held and the names of the victims who died in the disaster was being read out.
The roll call includes 40-year-old George Follows, who joined the Express & Star in around 1935 before moving to the Manchester Daily Herald, where he was working when he died.
All the dead will be remembered with a minute’s silence before tonight’s Wembley friendly between England and Switzerland.
Survivors were this afternoon assembling at Old Trafford for a special memorial service.
Edwards died 15 days after the accident, which happened at 3.04pm on February 6, 1958.
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