Private Bai
Private Bai of the Gold Coast Regiment was the first confirmed Commonwealth casualty under fire in the First World War….
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…
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…
Identifying as British Caribbean (Jamaica and Barbados), all four of Nicole’s grandparents came to Britain in 1955 as…
In 1943, having been told by a friend that the RAF was advertising for people from the Empire…
This heritage meant that David Clemetson’s family was part of the elite in Jamaica which dominated the then…
He gave his address as Collingwood, North Shields. According to Lionel’s children, “He (Lionel) felt British. He was…
In 1908 Walter started a career in football when he was signed by east London amateur side Clapton,…
Soldiers of African and Caribbean heritage have been integral to the British Army for more than 100 years….
Born in Jamaica, Harold was the eldest child of a successful retail chemist and strict Congregationalist. Harold moved…
Born in Plymouth, William Alexander Miller, known as Bill Miller, was the son of an English mother and…
As we mark 100 years of the coming together of some of Britain’s oldest Remembrance traditions, the Royal…