by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 13, 2024 | PIONEERS
Lady Ivy Woolley PIONEERS ‘Governor’s wife helped keep ship on straight course’ 1895 - 1981 Share this: There is a perception that the Empire Windrush carried only 492 Jamaican men who were looking for work in England. There were in fact 1,027...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 13, 2024 | PIONEERS
Clinton Wong PIONEERS ‘RAF volunteer became Warrant Officer in exemplary career’ 1921 - 2016 Share this: When he returned to England on the Empire Windrush in June 1948, Clinton Wong had already served in the war as a RAF volunteer. Having...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 13, 2024 | PIONEERS
Gertrude Whitelaw PIONEERS ‘Intrepid 80-year-old was off on her travels again’ 1868 - 1948 Share this: An unaccompanied elderly white female is not what most people envisage when they think of the Empire Windrush. At 80 years of age, Gertrude...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 13, 2024 | PIONEERS
Doris and Russell Walle PIONEERS ‘Mum-to-be in dash to England for birth’ 1919- 2003 Share this: There was a very special reason why Doris Walle was travelling on the Empire Windrush in May 1948 with her three-year-old son, Russell. She was...
by Ma8-_lPO9 | Mar 13, 2024 | PIONEERS
William and Henrietta Tucker PIONEERS ‘Medic who advanced the practice of surgery’ Share this: William Tucker was a physician who had a remarkable link to another piece of West Indian history. During the First World War, he was a surgeon at the...
