Constance Winifred Mark MBE BEM, Army veteran and activist
Constance was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Her father taught in a British Army school and when she was…
Constance was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Her father taught in a British Army school and when she was…
Born in Jamaica in 1925, Gilbert, his brother and sister lost their father when he was three. A…
Born and raised in Little London, Jamaica, and a descendant of a Scottish military doctor who settled there,…
Born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, in 1917 Ena Joyce St Clare Collymore was a pioneer from the beginning of…
The Second World War was not fought by Britain alone. It was a global conflict, drawing on the…
Richard Akinwande Savage (Jnr) was born in Edinburgh in 1903. His father claimed descent from a freed Nigerian…
Pessima (Peter) Lamboi was born on Christmas Day, 1921, in Moyamba District of the Kori Chiefdom in Sierra…
Michael’s story began in Togo in 1920, but he moved to Ghana when still a child to live…
Johnny Smythe was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 1915, when the country was still a British colony….
Philip Louis Ulric Cross (1917–2013) lived one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century. From a…
Lilian Mary Bader (1918–2015) was one of the first Black women to serve in Britain’s armed forces and…
This year saw marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a pivotal moment in the Second World War, when…
George Hamilton Westmaas and his wife Winifred raised eight boys in Georgetown, Guyana (then British Guiana). George’s grandson,…
He was selected to train as a navigator, due to his high scores on mathematics tests. Assigned as…
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 Jamaica, Noble was brought up primarily by his grandparents. He removed from a predominantly European Jamaican…
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…