
WATCH: African Community Service and Sacrifice
Folarin Kuku joined the Army in 2005 and attended Sandhurst he was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards. In…
Folarin Kuku joined the Army in 2005 and attended Sandhurst he was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards. In…
These films explore the service and sacrifice of different communities from Britain and the Commonwealth from the First…
“I was born in Woolwich, east London, to West Indian parents who had migrated to Britain in the…
Born in Jamaica as William Arthur Watkin Strachan, Billy left school in December 1939 with a desire to…
His mother was Gertrude Nelson. Patrick first came to Britain in 1937 after training as a hotel valet…
Born in Jamaica, Gilbert, his brother and sister lost their father when Gilbert was three. A bright pupil…
Born in Demerara, British Guiana (now Guyana), Russell’s father, William Russell, was a wealthy sugar plantation owner and…
Private Bai of the Gold Coast Regiment was the first confirmed Commonwealth casualty under fire in the First World War….
Emmanuel describes being in the Army as being ‘part of a bigger family where you can familiarise yourself…
Nicole wanted to be a paramedic from a very young age. She explains ‘I believe this stemmed from…
Born in Jamaica, Noble was brought up primarily by his grandparents. He removed from a predominantly European Jamaican…
When Karl Harris first thought about an army career, aged 16, he assumed he’d be a soldier, just…
Since early childhood, Norman had wanted to be a soldier and to travel. His parents were academics and…
“I wanted to be a nurse as long as I could remember. I never considered another career and…
Rhoda is a student paramedic. She was born in London after her parents moved from Nigeria to the…
From age eight Tsehai attended schools in England and Switzerland and would travel with her royal relatives to…
Born in Panama, Dudley’s father was a teacher who had come to the country for work purposes, and…
He became one of the first black men to join the British Army when he was enlisted as…
At the end of the war, Charles remained in Liverpool where the Black community had grown to 5,000…
He was selected to train as a navigator, due to his high scores on mathematics tests. Assigned as…