WINDRUSH OBITUARIES | SAM KING

WINDRUSH OBITUARIES | SAM KING

by | Dec 1, 2024 | News, Profiles

WINDRUSH OBITUARIES SAM KING King at the launch of the War to Windrush exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in 2008. He served with the RAF GETTY IMAGES Sam King – 1926 – 2016 Sam King was one of 492 Jamaicans who arrived at Tilbury Docks on Empire...
Norma Best

Norma Best

by | May 10, 2017 | Profiles

profiles Norma Best In 1944, Britain appealed to her colonies for assistance and one of the smallest was British Honduras (now Belize) responded. Norma Best (nee Leacock) was among those who volunteered. She was 20 years old, at the time.   With five other...
Harold Sinson

Harold Sinson

by | May 10, 2017 | Profiles

profiles Harold Sinson Harold was 18 years of age, when the war was declared in 1939. He was working at a foundry in British Guiana (now Guyana) as an engineering fitter, and one day in 1943, his friend who worked at the Daily Chronicle newspaper told him that the RAF...
Arthur Curling

Arthur Curling

by | May 10, 2017 | Profiles

profiles Arthur Curling In 1944, when the British government advertised in Jamaica for volunteers for the Royal Air Force against Germany, Arthur Curling answered the call. He was not yet 16 years of age, at the time, but passed the test and enlisted. He recalled,...
Cy Grant

Cy Grant

by | Jan 11, 2017 | Profiles

profiles Cy Grant Cy was born in British Guiana (now Guyana) and was 22 years of age in 1941 when he volunteered to join the Royal Air Force. Two years later, he was commissioned, thus becoming one of the few Black Officers in the RAF. During World War 2, he flew on...