by Ma8-_lPO9 | Jun 23, 2023 | PIONEERS
Vidal Dezonie PIONEERS ‘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...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Jun 23, 2023 | PIONEERS
ERIC DRYSDALE PIONEERS ‘Ship’s cook met wife-to-be in Cardiff docks’ 1934 - 2020 Share this: Eric Ignatius Paule Drysdale was brought up in Rae Town in Kingston, Jamaica, a neighbourhood close to the sea and not far from Sabina Park Cricket...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Jun 22, 2023 | PIONEERS
Clifford Fullerton PIONEERS ‘Tailor who was a cut above the rest’ 1908 - 1992 Share this: Jamaican-born tailor Clifford Fullerton decided to travel to England on the Empire Windrush because he wanted to learn more about his trade after working on...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Jun 22, 2023 | PIONEERS
NURVIN McKOY PIONEERS He and his father had similar experiences with racism in the armed forces. 1926 – 2020 Share this: Nurvin was born in Belize City, British Honduras (now Belize) in 1926. During WW2 Nurvin joined the Royal Air Force and first travelled...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Jun 22, 2023 | PIONEERS
DORINDA HULTON PIONEERS ‘In 1969 she qualified as a teacher with Distinction from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.’ Share this: Dorinda attended Manor House School in Dorset, England, as a boarder from the age of 8, and Wentworth...
