The event is highlighting the lives of Jamaican veterans who volunteered to serve the country as young men
“But for me this story’s been whitewashed out of the history of the war, nobody knows about it. So I hope this exhibition educates people and reminds everyone what West Indians have done over the years.”
Alford Gardner pictured with his friend Dennis Reed in 1945. Alford will be featured in the exhibition For King, Country and Home at Leeds Central Library. The exhibition launched with a special event for guests, including Alford and the children of other servicemen, and is now open to the public. Alford’s story will be told for the first time in his forthcoming book, Finding Home: A Windrush Story, written with his son Howard and to be published in June.
In the book, there are details of how Alford signed up after seeing an advert in Jamaica and how he travelled to the country in June 1944, three days before D-Day at the age of 18. After the war, Alford took an engineering training course in Leeds before being sent back to Jamaica at the end of 1947. He returned to Leeds in June 1948 where he settled, secured a job as an engineer and started a family.
Featured alongside Alford will be Errol James, who gave up his teacher training in Jamaica to join the RAF in 1944 at the age of 18. Like Alford, Errol was among the first generation of West Indians to settle in Leeds after the war.
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