Evelyn Wauchope

Evelyn Wauchope

Evelyn Wauchope PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS Cash-strapped seamstress stowed away but landed all smiles 1913 - 2010 Share this:      It was an opportunity she could not miss. At 39 and working as a seamstress, Evelyn Wauchope had longed for a better life and felt that...
VINCENT STEWART

VINCENT STEWART

VINCENT STEWART PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS His work took him to Burma, then a British crown colony 1913 - 2010 Share this:      His work took him to Burma, then a British crown colony, where he built the roads and bridges later used by Allied troops during the Second...
Willis & Eileen Johnson

Willis & Eileen Johnson

Willis & Eileen Johnson PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS Couple’s return to Jamaica proved false dawn 1920 - 1989 (WIllis) 19xx - 2015 (Eileen) Share this:      Willis and Eileen Johnson boarded the Empire Windrush at Kingston, Jamaica, with their two small children in...
Clinton Edwards

Clinton Edwards

Clinton Edwards PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS Menial work indignity prompted re-joining the RAF 1926 - 2018 Share this:      Like many passengers on the Empire Windrush, 21-year-old Clinton Edwards had served in the RAF as a Jamaican volunteer but found it hard to settle...
Vidal Dezonie

Vidal Dezonie

Vidal Dezonie PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS RAF officer whose career reached new heights 1927 - 2016 Share this:      So eager was Vidal Dezonie to fight for Britain during the Second World War that he fibbed about his age to qualify for the RAF. He would go on to have a...