TRIBUTE PAGE

ALLAN CHARLES WILMOT

(1925 – 2021)

Alan was born in Jamaica in 1925. After leaving college in 1941, he volunteered to join the Royal Navy, serving on a patrolling ship, escorting mine sweepers, and picking up survivors in the West Indies. In 1944 he volunteered for Royal Air Force service, and joined the air sea rescue team. Read more>

HERBERT ANTHONY DALEY

RAF World War 2 Veteran

(3rd July 1927 – 22nd October 2021)

MR RADCLIFFE ELLIS JOHNSON

RAF World War 2 Veteran Hanover Jamaica

(30th November 1921 – 21st April 2009)

Funeral service for Mr Johnson was held in Darlington Street Methodist Church Wolverhampton on 8th May 2009. He was buried in Danescourt Cemetery Wergs Road Tettenhall WV6 9BS.

SERGEANT LINCOLN ORVILLE LYNCH DFM

(1920 – 22nd October 2011)

Lynch, from Jamaica, volunteered for service in the RAF in 1942, and in 1943 won the Air Gunner’s trophy for obtaining the highest percentage of his course during his training in Canada. On his first operational flight with No 102 Squadron he shot down a German Junkers Ju 88.  Read more>

OSWALD DIXON

Ex-RAF Serviceman

(April 1919 – 25th September 2019)

Mr Dixon joined the RAF in Kingston, Jamaica, in November 1944 as a flight mechanic and moved to Britain before World War Two ended.

About 10,000 people left their families and homes in the Caribbean to join the British armed forces during the war. Read more>

In Loving Memory of Oswald ‘Ossie’ Dixon by Judith Shaw

PA SORIE SESAY

World War II Veteran

(1921 – 10th January 2022)

JAMAL EDWARDS MBE

(24 August 1990 – February 2022)

Jamal Edwards MBE (24 August 1990 – February 2022) was a British music entrepreneur, DJ, and founder of the online urban music platform SB.TV.

Jamal Edwards – Wikipedia

GEORGE POWE

(1926 – 2013)

George Powe, Jamaican WW2 Veteran, Outstanding Life Story

Oswald George Powe, always known as George, died in 2013, aged 87. He served in the RAF during World War II and subsequently settled in the UK. He was a lifelong socialist and a true comrade who fought against colonialism and racism, and strove for equality and respect for the African-Caribbean community.  Read more>

PETER BROWN

(22 August 1926 – 17 December 2022)

A packed St Clement Danes – the Central Church of the RAF – for Flight Sergeant Peter Brown WW2 Veteran Royal Air Force.

Friends, neighbours, family and others believed to be family members, were among hundreds of mourners to join a final farewell to one of the last aircrews of the Caribbean in WW2 at a moving RAF church ceremony.

Flight Sergeant Peter Brown, originally from Jamaica, died before Christmas aged 96 at the home he had lived at in Warrington Crescent, Maida Vale, for 50 years.

The full military send-off, in St Clement Danes Church, had to be booked after a council-funded crematorium service in Mortlake was judged too small to hold the crowds.

Peter, who died alone at his home, was due to be given a so-called “pauper’s funeral” without full military honours. Many individuals and the Media followed up on the story leading to prime minister Rishi Sunak calling for a fitting service, given his wartime heroism.

ANDREW ANTONIO HYDE

(December 30th 1952 – February 19th 2023)

Family and friends, comrades and colleagues, travelled from near and far to celebrate the life of Andy, as he was know to most, to bid him farewell on this inevitable journey that we must all travel. This was indeed an occasion that brought many, many people together, some who were not even aware that each other new Andy one way or another. From the long standing friendship going back to childhood to the comradeship of his military service. It all blended together to make a memorable day and a farewell that will be definitely long remembered.

PRIVATE HERBERT MORRIS (BWIR)

(Unknown – 1917)

Son of William and Ophelia Morris of Riversdale PO, St Catherine, Jamaica

6th Bn British West Indies Regiment
Olympian

Born about 1900
Died aged 17 years