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It is 75 years since HMT Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, Essex, on June 22, 1948, carrying passengers from the Caribbean. The Windrush generation has since b

Flight Sergeant Peter Brown had a modest funeral planned – before a campaign to find his relatives turned it into a much larger affair A report by Ed Cumming for London's Telegraph. Flight Sergeant Peter Brown’s coffin lay draped in a Union flag in front of the altar, with a large Jamaican flag behind. A…

The WW2 airman who was almost forgotten

The WW2 airman who was almost forgotten

Long-lost relatives of one of the last "pilots of the Caribbean" say they believed he had been dead for the past eight decades.

Hundreds at full military send-off for one of the last ‘pilots of the Caribbean’

Hundreds of mourners gathered at a historic church in central London yesterday for the funeral of one of the last black RAF pilots to have fought in the Second World War.

The funeral of Flight Sergeant Peter Brown was supposed to have been a low-key affair, just a handful of friends and neighbours at a suburban crematorium. Then

Hundreds of mourners gathered to pay their respects and celebrate the life of one of the last black RAF pilots to have fought in the Second World…

Plans to hold the funeral at a 140-capacity chapel in Mortlake, south-west London, in March were postponed because of a surge in requests to attend.