by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 8, 2024 | PIONEERS
JOSEPH AARON PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS ‘Would-be settler quit UK for the American dream’ 1922 - 2008 Share this: The calypso star Lord Kitchener seemed to have summed up the spirit of his fellow passengers when he sang ‘London is the place for me’ on...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 8, 2024 | PIONEERS
EVERARD ‘RALPH’ PEART PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS ‘Man of many talents who landed on his feet’ 1917 - 2010 Share this: Jamaican-born Everard Ralph Leopold Peart did not come from a privileged background and as a young child would often walk...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 8, 2024 | PIONEERS
BEATRICE ‘BOBBI’ AND WENDY OSBORN PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS ‘War bride reunited with RAF hero husband’ 1917 - 2017 Share this: Beatrice ‘Bobbi’ Osborn travelled on the Empire Windrush from Bermuda with her toddler daughter Wendy to join...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 8, 2024 | PIONEERS
ANDREW MOWLAH-BAKSH PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS ‘Boat reunited smitten couple who met in the war’ 1925 - 1982 Share this: It was the Second World War and despite Trinidad’s flourishing oil industry and a USA military base offering the ‘Yankee dollar’,...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 8, 2024 | PIONEERS
ERNEST AND SOPHIE MUIR PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS ‘Medic and his wife sailed the world to treat lepers’ 1880- 1974 Share this: Boarding at Port of Spain in Trinidad, Scottish-born medic Ernest Muir was returning to England on the Empire Windrush after...
