Sgt Sidney Cornell – Second World War Heroism
This year saw marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a pivotal moment in the Second World War, when…
Second World War Service and Sacrifice
The Westmaas Family
George Hamilton Westmaas and his wife Winifred raised eight boys in Georgetown, Guyana (then British Guiana). George’s grandson,…
John ‘Johnny’ Smythe (1915-1996)
He was selected to train as a navigator, due to his high scores on mathematics tests. Assigned as…
Billy Strachan (1921- 1998)
Born in Jamaica as William Arthur Watkin Strachan, Billy left school in December 1939 with a desire to…
Patrick Nelson (1916-1963)
His mother was Gertrude Nelson. Patrick first came to Britain in 1937 after training as a hotel valet…
Gilbert Clarke
Born in Jamaica, Gilbert, his brother and sister lost their father when Gilbert was three. A bright pupil…
Eddie Martin Noble (1917-2007)
Born in Jamaica, Noble was brought up primarily by his grandparents. He removed from a predominantly European Jamaican…
Princess Tsehai (1919-1942)
From age eight Tsehai attended schools in England and Switzerland and would travel with her royal relatives to…
Dudley Thompson (1917-2012)
Born in Panama, Dudley’s father was a teacher who had come to the country for work purposes, and…
Harold Sinson (1921- 2010)
In 1943, having been told by a friend that the RAF was advertising for people from the Empire…
Second World War Service and Sacrifice – Dr Harold Moody (1882-1947)
Born in Jamaica, Harold was the eldest child of a successful retail chemist and strict Congregationalist. Harold moved…
Second World War Service and Sacrifice – William ‘Bill’ Miller (1890-1970)
Born in Plymouth, William Alexander Miller, known as Bill Miller, was the son of an English mother and…
Second World War Service and Sacrifice : Norma Best
Born in British Honduras, now known as Belize, Norma was twenty years old when describing herself as ‘one…
Second World War Service and Sacrifice – Babatunde O. Alakija
Born in Nigeria, Alakija was educated at Oxford and was to hold the British Public School High Jump Championship. Alakija’s father,…
Second World War Service and Sacrifice – Arthur Wint OD MBE (1920-1992)
Born in Jamaica at 17 Arthur was named Jamaica’s “Boy Athlete of the Year”, and in 1938 was…
Second World War Service and Sacrifice – Princess Ademola
Princess Omo-Oba Adenrele Ademola, the daughter of the Alake of Abeokuta, a significant king in the southern region…
Second World War Service and Sacrifice – Hubert ‘Baron’ Baker (1925-1996)
Born in Jamaica in 1925, Baker came to Britain in 1944, aged 19. Baker joined the RAF as…
Sergeant Nikanori Oming – The Unforgettable WWII hero from Uganda, East Africa
Most of his siblings died as infants, so only two of them survived, him and his sister Apio….
