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…
Service and Sacrifice
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….
