John ‘Johnny’ Smythe (1915-1996)
He was selected to train as a navigator, due to his high scores on mathematics tests. Assigned as…
Second World War Service and Sacrifice
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….
