Laurent Phillpotts
Laurent Lloyd Phillpotts (30 August 1922 – 11 January 2016) joined the RAF in 1943 after an appeal by King George VI.[1]
He helped set up The West Indian Association of Service Personnel, formerly named The West Indian ex-Servicemen's Association.[2]
In 1956, Laurent Phillpotts launched the first black weekly newspaper Colonial News.[2]
He campaigned for the erection of the Memorial Gates in London, commemorating British forces' black Commonwealth servicemen and women from two World Wars.[2]
With others he pioneered the Association of Jamaicans, the Caribbean Centre and the West Indian Carib Cricket Club.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Neglected war veterans exist on one meal a day, The Independent. 8 November 2003. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
- ^ a b c d Laurie Phillpotts, airman - obituary, The Telegraph. 3 February 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2017.