by Windrush Foundation | May 29, 2019 | News
Windrush 2019 – An Evening of Inspiration & Celebration Commemorating the 71st anniversary of the Empire Windrush arrival. Includes a tribute to the late Asquith Gibbes. Contributors: Dorinda Hulton (Windrush passenger)Damien Egan (Mayor of...
by Windrush Foundation | 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...
by Windrush Foundation | 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...
by Windrush Foundation | May 10, 2014 | Profiles
profiles Dudley Anderson Dudley Anderson was born in Jamaica in 1925, and like many other young men in 1944 he volunteered to join the Royal Air Force. He travelled to England, trained, and served as a Medical Orderly. Before being demobbed, he took a bookkeeping and...
by Windrush Foundation | May 10, 2013 | Community Champions
community champions Harry Cumberbatch In 1964 I was recruited in Barbados by London Transport to work on the buses, after some preparation I arrived at Bow bus garage in East London during the summer of that year. I had previously worked in the merchant navy as a...