African American soldiers
​Stories of a contingent of African American soldiers who arrived in East Yorkshire during WW2.
Lilian Bader
Liverpool-born woman who lived in Hull and served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force during WW2.
Theophilus Davis
Marine engineer in the early twentieth century who lived in Hull before fighting in WW1.
John Lewis Friday
Private in the 33rd West Riding Regiment of Foot and veteran of Waterloo, based in Hull.
Alford Gardner​
A West Indian volunteer who served in the RAF ground crew during the Second World War.
Hull at War: newspapers
Clippings from newspapers from WW2, documenting Black servicemen in Hull.
Richard Lisles
The events surrounding the drowning of a soldier in the River Humber in August 1820.​
Denris J. Mouton
African American soldier and member of all-Black unit stationed at Cottingham in WW2.
RAF Aircrew
More than 400 West Indian men flew with the RAF in WW2 - some stationed in East Yorkshire.
RAF Ground Crew
Throughout the early 1940s and WW2, Britain looked to the Caribbean for RAF volunteers.
RAF Ground Crew volunteers
The stories of a number of men from the West Indies who trained at Filey during WW2.
RAF Hunmanby Moor
In July 1944, a number of West Indian recruits arrived at RAF Hunmanby Moor in Filey.
RAF WW2 recruits
Stories of the Caribbean RAF personnel who trained at Filey.
George Pontifex Reeves
Merchant seaman from Sierra Leone serving in WW1 as part of the Hawkes Battalion and also in WW2.
Wylie Young
Black American serviceman stationed at the U.S. Army camp at Cottingham in the early 1940s..
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