1393795 - W.G.T. Greaves, Sgt from Grenada.

He could be the W G Greaves mentioned in RAFCommands website as: , POW in L6, POW# 1311

[Courtesy Jerome Lee, CMHA]

[Trinidad Guardian 18 January 1944 - Courtesy Jerome Lee, CMHA]

1393775 - C.P. Ross - Leeward & Windward Islands - attested 18.7.41 - Pilot
132098 - F/O - commissioned 27.10.42 - Missing believed killed - D.P. 3.11.43

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

Flying Officer - KIA - Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany

[Source: CG]

Sergeant - KIA - Oxford (Botley) Cemetery, Oxfordshire, UK

[Source: CG]

F/O - pilot

Unclear whether from Trinidad or Grenada.

[Source: CG/Jerome Lee]

West Indians in the Royal Air Force: A Trinidad accountant, Jellicoe Scoon, recently arrived in England as a Royal Air Force recruit. Aircraftman Scoon was accepted as a pilot, completed elementary flying school training with at least fifty hours to his credit, and was then sent to Service Flying Training School.

[Photograph: IWM]

Sergeant

[Source: CG]

No 24 OTU RAF Honeybourne between May and July 1942
[Photograph courtesy of the family of P/O FW Hargreaves who went to 102 Squadron as a Bomb Aimer and then Navigator]

1391848 - J.A. Marryshow - Trinidad - PIlot - attested 6.6.41

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

Flying Officer - fighter pilot - 602 Sqn - Spitfire

[Source: CG, UC]

Son of the late Hon.T.A. Marryshow, CBE, journalist and legislator of Grenada.

[Source: Basil Marryshow, brother]

602 Sqn ‘B’ Flight- Peterhead 1942

602 Sqn ‘B’ Flight - Sumburgh, January 1943

[Photos: Royal Air Force Museum]

Julian Marryshow in the 1980s. He was attending an exhibition at a North London library, researched by Audrey Elcombe, about Black participants in World War 2. The small sepia picture on the bottom of the display is of Julian in his fighter plane. [Source/copyright Audrey Dewjee]