Seven Journalists of Melbourne
No. 5 - Edward George Honey

Edward George Honey (1885-1922), an Australian journalist working in Fleet Street,
and who had fought with the British, wrote in 1919 to the Evening Mail as follows:

’A few silent minutes is needed of National Remembrance : a sacred intercession.
A communion with the Glorious Dead, who have won us this peace ; from this
communion : a new strength, a new hope and a faith in the morrow. In the street,
the home, the theatre; indeed anywhere Englishmen and their women chance to
be, surely these bitter-sweet minutes of silence will be service enough.’

This because he was devastated by the victory celebrations of drunkenness in the streets. A few months later he was invited by King George V to view a rehearsal at Buckingham Palace of a Remembrance Celebration and a Two Minute Silence. Honey has a monument in Melbourne near the great Shrine of Remembrance ( where on 11th November at 11am
a shaft of sunlight shines through an aperture in the roof on to a memorial slab inscribed
’Greater Love Hath No Man’.)

Honey was a sickly man and unfortunately contracted tuberculosis and was admitted to Mount Vernon Hospital where he died in 1922.

He is buried in Northwood Cemetery in Chestnut Avenue, Northwood, Middlesex.

Seven Journalists of Melbourne - overview

• No.1 - Little Johnny Fawkner

• No.2 - Garryowen

• No.3 - 'Vag'

• No.4 - Keith Murdoch

• No.5 - Edward George Honey

• No. 6 - Bruce Postle - photojournalist