Born in Portland, Jamaica, Sam Beaver King first worked as a boy on his father’s banana farm. When he was 18, he noticed an appeal in the Daily Gleaner for

When Guyanese-born Cy Grant volunteered for the Royal Air Force in 1941, it was, he said, a chance to escape the confines of a sleepy colonial backwater. One of 500

In 1995, Arthur Torrington received a phone call from RAF veteran Sam King to interest him in organising the 50th anniversary of the arrival of MV Empire Windrush. Sam had

Sir Lenworth George Henry, better known as Lenny, was born in Dudley, the West Midlands, to Jamaican parents. In 1975 aged 17, he won TV talent show New Faces with

John Richards is the third person in the famous photograph showing three sharp looking young men arriving in England on the MV Empire Windrush. Dressed in a pin striped suit,