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Flight Lieutenant Cy Grant

RAF Navigator/Pilot 1941 - 103 Squadron (Bomber Cammand) Cy Grant was born in what was then known as British Guiana (now Guyana) in...

#Women in the Armed Forces

Women in the Armed Forces These young women of colour from the West Indies and Africa follow a long-standing tradition of women in the...

E.R Brathwaite

By Maureen Dickson, Author of “Pilots and Soldiers of The Caribbean: Fighting Men of the Caribbean” E.R Brathwaite RAF Fighter Pilot...

JOHNSON G. BEHARRY VC

Johnson G. Beharry VC By Maureen M Dickson Author of "Pilots and Soldiers of the Caribbean; Fighting Men of the Caribbean When the name...

William Robinson Clark - Pilot WWI

By Maureen Dickson Author of "Pilots and Soldiers of the Caribbean: Fighting Men of the Caribbean" Sergeant William Robbie Clarke Pilot...

WWI British Soldier - First Shot Fired

Alhaji Grunshi Alhaji Grunshi was the soldier who fired the first shot in WWI. He was part of the Gold Coast Regiment. He made that...