GEORGE ARTHUR ROBERTS
TRINIDADIAN, 1 AUG 1891 – 8 JAN 1970
George Arthur Roberts arrived in Britain and joined the army around 1914, fighting in World War I. In the years between the two wars, Roberts became a founding member of the League of Coloured Peoples, an influential civil rights organisation. In 1938 he joined the Auxiliary Fire Service (the first black man to do so) and throughout World War II he bravely tackled the fires of the Blitz. In 1943 George was made the leading fireman and in 1944 received the British Empire Medal.
Lieutenant Ernest Gidden
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