Black Poppies

Black Poppies

Inspired by the book "Black Poppies" by Stephen Bourne, this community remembers the lives of black servicemen and women. Like that book, this community defines the term "black" as including Caribbean and British people of African origin. (To keep numbers manageable, I'm not including by default everyone who served in the West Indies Regiment - they can easily be found on Lives by searching for West Indies.)

Created by: , Yvonne27542

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  • Profile picture for Russell Douglas Cameron

    Born 1897

    British Army 5152 Private London Regiment 4/4th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Rosario Lopez

    Born 1893

    British Army R/15828 Private King's Royal Rifle Corps

    British Army 225 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion

    Royal Navy Z/39 Bristol Ordinary Seaman Royal Naval Division

  • Profile picture for John Maloney Hill

    Born 1883

    British Army 371288 Private Labour Corps 290th Area Labour Company

    British Army 371288 Private Labour Corps 827th Area Labour Company

    British Army 9867 Private Lancashire Fusiliers 3rd Battalion

  • Profile picture for Charles Ford

    Born 1893

    British Army 68273 Private King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 3rd Battalion

  • Profile picture for James Ross Young

    Born 1859

    Royal Navy 361684 Officers Cook 1st Class

    Royal Navy 361684 Officers Chief Cook

    Royal Navy 361684

  • Profile picture for Macormack Charles Farrell Easmon,m.d, Obe

    Born 1890

    Died 1972

    British Army Acting Lieutenant Sierra Leone Medical Service

    British Army Lieutenant West African Frontier Force

  • Profile picture for Arthur William David Roberts

    Born 1897

    Died 1982

    British Army King's Own Scottish Borderers

    British Army 41180 Private Royal Scots Fusiliers

    British Army 411237 Private Labour Corps 883 AE Company

  • Profile picture for Eugent Clarke

    Born 1894

    Died 2002

    British Army 3931 Private British West Indies Regiment

  • Profile picture for Marcus Thomas Bailey

    Born 1883

    Died 1927

    Royal Navy 361310 HMS Retribution

    Royal Navy 361310 Able Seaman HMS Chester

    Other Empire Force 11241 Able Seaman Mercantile Marine - SS Eastcheap

  • Profile picture for Egbert T Watson

    Born 1890

    British Army 111885 Gunner Royal Garrison Artillery

  • Profile picture for Antonio Francisco Deniz

    Born 1877

    Died 1937

    Other Empire Force Donkeyman Merchant Navy

  • Profile picture for Lushington Wendell Bruce-James

    Born 1891

    Died 1968

    British Army PS/8581 Private Royal Fusiliers

  • Profile picture for Alfred Frederick Davis

    Born 1866

    British Army 4560 Sergeant King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 8th Battalion

    British Army 3435 Boy King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1/4th Battalion

    British Army 269491 Sergeant Labour Corps Western Command

  • Profile picture for John Agard

    Born 1894

    Died 1958

    British Army 53643 Private Somerset Light Infantry 3rd Battalion

  • Profile picture for Joseph Adolphus Nurse

    Born 1884

    British Army 68267 Private King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 3rd (Reserve) Battalion

  • Profile picture for Kamal Athon Chunchie

    Born 1886

    Died 1953

    British Army 3280 Private Middlesex Regiment

    British Army S/445263 Private Royal Army Service Corps

  • Profile picture for Richard Cousins

    Born 1885

    British Army 65401 Private Suffolk Regiment 1st (Reserve) Garrison Battalion

  • Profile picture for Otto Rudolf Vignale

    Born 1892

    Died 1955

    British Army 401629 Royal Army Service Corps 1st Training Battalion

    British Army 139467 Royal Horse & Field Artillery No 7th Training School

    British Army 311681 Royal Garrison Artillery 2/1st Northumbrian (West Riding ) Heavy Battery

  • Profile picture for Francis 'frank' Sydney Dove

    Born 1897

    Died 1957

    British Army 91658 Private Tank Corps

    British Army 91658 Driver Tank Corps

  • Profile picture for George Arthur Roberts, B.e.m.

    Born 1890

    Died 1970

    British Army Sergeant Middlesex Regiment