Edie and Joe receive MBEs in Queen’s Birthday Honours

Edie Timm of St Helena and Joe Green of Tristan da Cunha have both been awarded the MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for 2012.

They appear in the official list as follows:

Mrs Edith May Timm, formerly Chief Education Officer, St Helena, for services to education and to the community in St Helena.

Joseph Gordon Green, mechanic and voluntary worker, Tristan da Cunha, for services to the community in Tristan da Cunha.

Joe’s honour comes only a week after he retired as Tristan’s “Mr Fix-It” at the age of 65.

SEE ALSO:
Tristan’s ‘Mr Fix-It’ turns 65 – but will Joe really retire?

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About Simon Pipe

Former print and BBC journalist, running St Helena Online news website about British territories in the South Atlantic at www.sthelenaonline.org and blogging occasionally on other sites.
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