Yebaw Ko Htwe (3 March 1929 – 19 July 1947)

* Yebaw Ko Htwe was born in Mandalay to U Ko Ko Kalay, a retired officer at the Department of Agriculture, and his wife Daw Min Yi, a school teacher, on 3 March 1929. He was their sixth son.

* He attended school till the ninth grade, and then at the age of 18 he served as a bodyguard to U Razak, the Minister for Education and National Planning during the pre-independence government.

* Yebaw Ko Htwe was fond of playing at fighting at a young age and detested the colonial British. He was kind-hearted but harbored a strong sense of nationalism. He enjoyed swimming and growing plants. His father himself entrusted him to U Razak to mentor him.

* A little known fact about Yebaw Ko Htwe is that even though he was a bodyguard he wasn’t a commissioned officer. While he was attending U Razak’s Mandalay National High School, he became a people’s comrade and learnt some military warfare. He was politically active as well. At the time of his death he had earned a Naypyitaw twostar officer position, but he never had the chance to take his uniform.

* He was shot along with Bogyoke Aung San and other national leaders, at 10:37am on 19 July 1947. He died at 2:15pm the same day.

Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar