McCOY – Lacombe Alphonsus

[Picture: Dominica Legion, a branch of the Royal Commonwealth Ex Servicemen League, courtesy Gabriel Christian]

1394216 – L.A.A. McCoy – Leeward & Windward Islands – attested 17.7.41 – Ach/Obs
P/O – commissioned 17.10.42- Missing believed killed

[Source: NA AIR 2/6876 – Nominal Roll of Coloured Candidates, October 1944]

This stamp was issued in 1998 to mark the 80th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force. It reflect the portraits of Dominicans who served with Honor as RAF Aircrew. From left to right; Wallace Wordsworth Plenderlieth, L.A. McKoy, Harold Cherberd Bryant, DFC, Clifford Severin, Edward Dyrample (AKA Edward Scobie). McKoy, Bryant and Osmunde St. Claire Alleyne were killed in action. Their names are on the cenotaph on Victoria Street Roseau next to the battlements of the old British Army Fort Young (within which a modern hotel now nestles – cannons and all). Every year the aged veterans (very few left), the Police, Scouts, Girl Guides and Army Cadets of the Dominica Cadet Corps parade by in honor to men who are considered heroes for the gallant service rendered in the fight for democracy and freedom.

 

 

McCOY, Pilot Officer, LACOMBE ALPHONSUS, 130839. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. 11 April
1943. Of Dominica.
MALTA MEMORIAL, Malta
Commonwealth War Dead (1939-1945)

Grave Reference: Panel 7, Column 1.

[Courtesy Gabriel Christian]

BRYANT – Harold Cherberd

[Picture: Dominica Legion, a branch of the Royal Commonwealth Ex Servicemen League, courtesy Gabriel Christian]

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[Pictures: 1. Service Record HC Bryant during his period as an AC; 2. Letter describing HC Bryant’s actions that led to his DFC; 3. Letter to HC Bryant’s sister regarding his death; click to enlarge or download; courtesy Gabriel Christian]

This stamp was issued in 1998 to mark the 80th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force. It reflect the portraits of Dominicans who served with Honor as RAF Aircrew. From left to right; Wallace Wordsworth Plenderlieth, L.A. McKoy, Harold Cherberd Bryant, DFC, Clifford Severin, Edward Dyrample (AKA Edward Scobie). McKoy, Bryant and Osmunde St. Claire Alleyne were killed in action. Their names are on the cenotaph on Victoria Street Roseau next to the battlements of the old British Army Fort Young (within which a modern hotel now nestles – cannons and all). Every year the aged veterans (very few left), the Police, Scouts, Girl Guides and Army Cadets of the Dominica Cadet Corps parade by in honor to men who are considered heroes for the gallant service rendered in the fight for democracy and freedom.

FLYING OFFICER HAROLD CHERBERD BRYANT

Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flying Officer (Air Gunner)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 514 Squadron
Age: 32
Date of Death: 02/05/1944
Service No: 143598
Awards; D.F.C
Additional Information: Son of Gerald King Bryan and Helen Bryant of Dominica
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Block “S” Plot 4. Row U. Coll., Grave 8-14
Cemetery: ST. SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN

[Courtesy Gabriel Christian]

PLENDERLEITH – Wallace Wordsworth

This stamp was issued in 1998 to mark the 80th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force. It reflect the portraits of Dominicans who served with Honor as RAF Aircrew. From left to right; Wallace Wordsworth Plenderlieth, L.A. McKoy, Harold Cherberd Bryant, DFC, Clifford Severin, Edward Dyrample (AKA Edward Scobie). McKoy, Bryant and Osmunde St. Claire Alleyne were killed in action. Their names are on the cenotaph on Victoria Street Roseau next to the battlements of the old British Army Fort Young (within which a modern hotel now nestles – cannons and all). Every year the aged veterans (very few left), the Police, Scouts, Girl Guides and Army Cadets of the Dominica Cadet Corps parade by in honor to men who are considered heroes for the gallant service rendered in the fight for democracy and freedom.

[Courtesy Gabriel Christian]

 

Service number: 2218930

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SEVERIN – Clifford Alexander

606871 [Source NA]

Sgt Severin was serving at No. 4 Air Gunners School at R.A.F. Morpeth in 1944. He’s mentioned as being a pilot in a couple of air gunners’ R.A.F. log books, but with no further details.

Clifford Severin sailed on the R.M.S. Queen Mary from Southampton to New York in August 1948. Not much detail, but he’s listed as aged 26, his nationality is recorded as British with a New York address on West 3rd Street.

Born 23 Dec. 1920, passed 27 May 2003, buried on Dominica:   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197108686/clifford-alexander-severin

[Courtesy Simon Glancey]

Clifford Severin of Dominica – Royal Canadian Air Force Training Program and Royal Air Force
Clifford Severin of Dominica WW II  RCAF and RAF with colleague
Clifford Severin of Dominica – RCAF and RAF WWII – in training for combat
[Courtesy Gabriel Christian]
This stamp was issued in 1998 to mark the 80th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force. It reflect the portraits of Dominicans who served with Honor as RAF Aircrew. From left to right; Wallace Wordsworth Plenderlieth, L.A. McKoy, Harold Cherberd Bryant, DFC, Clifford Severin, Edward Dyrample (AKA Edward Scobie). McKoy, Bryant and Osmunde St. Claire Alleyne were killed in action. Their names are on the cenotaph on Victoria Street Roseau next to the battlements of the old British Army Fort Young (within which a modern hotel now nestles – cannons and all). Every year the aged veterans (very few left), the Police, Scouts, Girl Guides and Army Cadets of the Dominica Cadet Corps parade by in honor to men who are considered heroes for the gallant service rendered in the fight for democracy and freedom.

ALLEYNE – Osmund William St. Clair

Aircraftsman 2nd Class – Wireless Operator/Gunner

[Source: MOD]

Osmund Alleyne (KIA) from Dominica and J.R Henry from Antigua [Photograph IWM]

Sgt OSMUND WILLIAM ST. CLAIR ALLEYNE

1393814 142 Squadron – Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Who Died on
o5 August 1943
of Dominica
Remembered with Honor
MALTA MEMORIAL

MALTA MEMORIAL, Malta
Grave Reference: Panel 8, Column 1.
Commonwealth War Dead (1939-1945)

Left – Aircraftsmen 2nd Class C2 J R Henry of Antigua and (right)  Osmund Alleyne of Dominica, photographed whilst under training as Wireless Operator/Air Gunners, December 1941.

[Courtesy Gabriel Christian]

 

DALRYMPLE – Vivian Edward George a.k.a. Edward Scobie

1800477 – V.E.G. Dalrymple – Leeward & Windward Islands – attested 30.12.40 – Ach/Pilot
P/O

[Source: NA AIR 2/6876 – Nominal Roll of Coloured Candidates, October 1944]

Flight Lieutenant

Edward Scobie Dalrymple

[Source: CG]

DALRYMPLE – Vivian Edward George (later known as Edward Scobie)

Service no. after Commission: 154843

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Edward Scobie Dalrymple

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Postwar career

Dr Edward Scobie – Authority on the Presence of Africans in Britian

 

 

 

This stamp was issued in 1998 to mark the 80th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force. It reflect the portraits of Dominicans who served with Honor as RAF Aircrew. From left to right; Wallace Wordsworth Plenderlieth, L.A. McKoy, Harold Cherberd Bryant, DFC, Clifford Severin, Edward Dyrample (AKA Edward Scobie). McKoy, Bryant and Osmunde St. Claire Alleyne were killed in action. Their names are on the cenotaph on Victoria Street Roseau next to the battlements of the old British Army Fort Young (within which a modern hotel now nestles – cannons and all). Every year the aged veterans (very few left), the Police, Scouts, Girl Guides and Army Cadets of the Dominica Cadet Corps parade by in honor to men who are considered heroes for the gallant service rendered in the fight for democracy and freedom.

[Courtesy Gabriel Christian]

F/Lt Edward (Scobie) Dalrymple, 1918-1996 Dominica.  A distinguished journalist/historian  Scobie was born in Dominica, a  British colony.  As a working journalist in London, Scobie became a correspondent for the Chicago Defender and for Ebony and Jet magazines.  He enlisted to serve the British cause during World War II, serving in the Royal Air Force as a pilot officer. After the war, he contributed to many London newspapers, magazines and the wire services, and became a frequent broadcaster and scriptwriter for radio and television.  From 1961 to 1963 he edited Flamingo, a monthly magazine published in London for African people in Britain, Africa and the Caribbean.  Scobie was twice the Mayor of Roseau, capital of Dominica, and vice-president of the Dominica Freedom Party. Edward Scobie was Professor Emeritus of History, Black Studies Department, City College of New York.  Previously, Dr. Scobie taught at Princeton and Rutgers Universities. He authored Black Brittania and The Global African Experience.