Petty Officer Fiesha Greene, Royal Navy
Fiesha grew up in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and when she was 17 she moved to the…
Service and Sacrifice
Albert McLean, Firefighter
In 1972, Albert McLean made headlines by becoming Scotland’s first black firefighter. However, his career in the fire…
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 – Ramsay Bader (1919-1992)
Ramsay was born in Chiswick in Essex. His mother was also born in Chiswick, and his father was…
First World War Service and Sacrifice – Richard (Dickie) Barr (1888-1955)
Dickie Barr was born in Perranuthnoe. He was the son of a miner, Richard Barr, who was of…
Brigadier Nathan Sempala-Ntege OBE
Nathan’s late father was Ugandan and his mother is British. He spent his early childhood in Uganda, but…
Detective Sergeant Norwell Roberts QPM (retired)
Norwell was 9 years old when he and his widowed mother came to England from Anguilla in the Caribbean in…
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…
First World War Service and Sacrifice – Marcus Bailey (1883-1927)
A Barbadian who having served in the Mercantile Marine joined the crew of the Royal Naval vessel HMS…
Chief Petty Officer Evadne Gordon Royal Navy Reservist
Evadne Gordon from Hackney, London, was just 19 years old when she joined the Royal Naval Reserve as…
First World War Service and Sacrifice – Louis Achoy (1896-1918)
A Trinidadian as a 19-year-old sailor he was recruited in Newcastle upon-Tyne by the Northumberland Fusiliers, 1st Tyneside…
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…
Harold Brown (1899-1955)
Harold would be one of three children with a brother called Gordon and a sister called Ada. After…
First World War Service and Sacrifice – George Edward Kingsley Bemand (1892-1916)
Born in Jamaica, George was the eldest of four children born to a white father, George, and a…
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….
